United Torah Judaism lawmaker Meir Porush puts down Yamina MK Idit Silman, saying she was 'acting like a little girl' as she chaired the powerful Knesset Arrangements Committee

United Torah Judaism leader Moshe Gafni insists his party would have stuck with Likud no matter who was leading the party

Yisrael Beytenu head contradicts Lapid, Bennett who insist door remains open to ultra-Orthodox slates; also demands
immediate introduction of legislation likely to anger Haredim

Yamina MK Matan Kahana says he'll reform kosher supervision, name new city rabbis, and of course there will be a full inquiry into April's Mount Meron disaster, which killed 45

Eyal Malis suspected of donating to ultra-Orthodox bodies affiliated with former minister Yaakov Litzman in return for regulatory favors

In assault on PM-designate, Litzman says Yamina leader may as well remove his kippa, Deri says he'll 'destroy Shabbat, conversion, kashrut'; Bennett dismisses 'hysterical outburst'

Gantz and Liberman tussle over agriculture portfolio as Yesh Atid, Yamina and other 'change bloc' parties acknowledge new government not yet a done deal

A narrow, fractured coalition needs the ultra-Orthodox parties to survive. Bennett is trying a conciliatory approach to achieve that, while Lapid opts for blunt force trauma

As ultra-Orthodox political leaders resist an independent investigation of Israel's worst civil disaster, fearing they'll be blamed, anger is rising within the community

Opposition-pushed motion backed by 19 MKs, opposed by 13 members of pro-Netanyahu bloc after heated debate at Arrangements Committee