'They can lie as much as they want, but I was with them and saw it,' Stella Weinstein says of party members who defied government, helping bring down Bennett-led coalition

Netanyahu says comments by Shimrit Meir proof that Lapid will not be able to form a government without being 'blackmailed' by majority-Arab parties, whom he too has courted

Bennett ally Matan Kahana likely to abandon new faction leader over ideological differences, as Shaked faces a struggle to keep MKs and preserve party funding

Shimrit Meir, who resigned as PM's foreign policy adviser last month, suggests 'everything started to go totally downhill' when Yamina MK Idit Silman defected

Snap survey, taken before Bennett had announced he was handing party leadership to Shaked, puts potential Netanyahu-led bloc at 63 seats in the 120-member Knesset

In emotional speech, outgoing prime minister lauds his government's achievements, calls for national unity and says No. 2 Ayelet Shaked will take over Yamina leadership

Online advertising budget, rally by supporters, telephone poll of Yamina voters and hints to party activists seen among signs of outgoing PM's plans

Outgoing PM says he hasn't decided whether he'll run again in next elections; Shaked said to have exhausted all efforts to form an alternative coalition in existing Knesset

Israeli TV says outgoing PM floated possible retirement at meeting with Yamina MKs; also reportedly offered high-level posts to rebel lawmaker Orbach in exchange for resigning

PM reportedly tells coalition partners that bringing the bill will push renegade Yamina MK Nir Orbach into the arms of the Netanyahu camp