'He put out a statement to hurt me,' David Amsalem says in response to ex-PM's disavowal of comments on adding 'anti-Zionist' Islamist faction to a potential government

Political correspondent Carrie Keller-Lynn updates us as the gov't dissolves; Palestinian affairs correspondent Aaron Boxerman projects forward; and the oldest mosque in the world!

Mazen Ghanaim to leave national politics and become mayor of Sakhnin; Ghaida Rinawie-Zoabi not ruling out run with different party in coming vote

Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur makes a bold prediction on coalition's collapse; Palestinian affairs correspondent Aaron Boxerman on whether Ra'am actually helped Arab Israelis

Alaa al-Din Jabareen, next in line for Knesset seat, resigns, putting Abbas loyalist on Knesset threshold instead of dissident; Ra'am MK denies party seeking Ghanaim's resignation

Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi indicates she won't submit to pressure to quit; coalition also dealing with threats from the right, with Bennett set to meet Sunday with with Yamina MK Orbach

Rejecting Abbas assertions, Israel Katz denies he was ever presented with proposal for Likud to form government with Islamist party

Report says left-wing party and fellow coalition faction Ra'am have told PM they've lost control of Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi and Mazen Ghanaim

Despite latest blow to governing bloc, a plurality of Israelis want coalition remain in power, one third prefer going back to polls and 25% back Netanyahu forming alternative gov't

Failed votes on settler bill and ministerial post have deepened cracks that could threaten survival of coalition once vaunted for its myriad ideologies, but now felled by them

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