Citing Passover holiday season and April's Gaza fighting, PM calls 14-day extension to coalition talks 'accepted practice'

Likud says PM seeking to push back deadline to May 28; partners said to agree on legislation removing limitation on number of ministers

Independence Day celebrations across the country see hundreds of thousands turn out to enjoy nature, watch Air Force flybys, and cook up a BBQ

Annual event at Reuven Rivlin's official residence in Jerusalem also attended by Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu and army's Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi

As festivities kick off, president says when he was a boy he couldn't fly Israeli flag, while today it is everywhere -- even space

In a video published for Memorial Day, soldier's mother says the national ethos is for all service members to be brought back from battle in every situation

Rivlin says return of Zachary Baumel's remains is a testament to commitment to bringing back other missing troops; IDF chief says the day 'dissolves barriers and unites the nation'

'Terror strikes us all without discrimination and without mercy and we will never surrender to it,' Reuven Rivlin says at home of victim Zaid al-Hamamda

PM says Hamas paying a ‘very heavy price’ for its rocket fire as ministers call for escalation, renewal of targeted assassinations

As Holocaust Remembrance Day draws to close amid fights between left and right, president says distance of time means Israelis can move past differences to remember Shoah together