Amid reported clash between Netanyahu and Gantz over 2020 budget, ultra-Orthodox lawmakers appear to signal to PM he shouldn't use the matter as pretext to call new national vote

Rabbi Baruch Gazahay, who has posted many videos disparaging women and Arabs, drops candidacy amid outcry

Rabbi Baruch Gazahay has posted many videos disparaging women; has said only monkeys accept the theory of evolution; now claims comments 'taken out of context'

Plan to build homeless shelter on burial site draws condemnation from Arab, Haredi MKs; raises claims of excessive police force; and is riling up firebrands as violence spirals

TV survey gives PM's Likud party 40 seats if elections held today; Blue and White would get 12, fewer than Gantz's former allies in Yesh Atid-Telem

While others were distracted by annexations, rotations and newfangled ministries, Shas and UTJ quietly won control over key ministries and major bottlenecks of economic policy

A rundown of the distribution of portfolios in the new cabinet and top Knesset positions

Politician who broke ranks with dovish allies will lead Community Empowerment and Advancement Ministry, also pledges to back Netanyahu on West Bank annexation

PM officially informs Rivlin, Gantz that he is able to form government, signalling end to nearly 18 months of political deadlock

In first address after signing coalition deal with prime minister, Blue and White chair says they both would have preferred a government without each other