Head of Telem says party, freefalling in polls, will drop out of March elections so opposition can focus its strength

Ex-defense chief's party denies Amal Abo Alqom supports plural marriages, after clip surfaces in which she said she wouldn't mind her husband taking a second wife

Recent polls show defense minister under the electoral threshold after pulling his Telem faction out of Lapid's Yesh Atid

After splitting up with Yesh Atid, former Likud defense minister teams up with recently resigned science minister, ex-virus adviser to government, and anti-PM activists

Doctors union chief Hagai Levine says he believes in former defense minister's leadership; Crime Minister head Gonen Ben Yitzhak: Ya'alon deserves the post of premier

Yair Lapid tweets: 'I value and respect Moshe Ya'alon very much and wish him luck,' as yet another party is expected to join the already-crowded field of the March election

Ya'alon, Lapid reportedly fail to agree on terms on continued partnership; Bennett's party in talks with faction whose leader, Rafi Peretz, seems poised to retire

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

Derech Eretz's Zvi Hauser and Yoaz Hendel say Netanyahu-led bloc would have given them 'every position we could have imagined' to join right-wing coalition

Blue and White sources say Gantz will make good on his threat to convene Knesset vote Monday, but former ally Ya'alon says it's just a pressure tactic in negotiations with Likud