Right-wing leaders sign pledge insisting on Netanyahu for PM, vowing to enter coalition only as a group, putting pressure on Blue and White to sit with ultra-Orthodox

Shaked says 55-member bloc for coalition talks is just a 'vague idea'; Smotrich hints party will demand a commitment not to form government with Gantz

Battle lines often form around the country's balance of religion and liberal democracy; those tensions were a central theme of the recent national election

Likud and right-wing ally Yamina projected to win fewer seats than expected, despite PM's campaign efforts to shore up nationalist support

Meeting with political allies, Netanyahu's party seeks to present united front against pressure to form unity government with Blue and White

Right-wing and ultra-Orthodox leaders reportedly plan to tell PM that if he commits to folding them into next coalition, they will recommend only him as next premier

Bezalel Smotrich says Otzma Yehudit chief Itamar Ben Gvir should 'not show his face in public' after costing right-wing bloc 'tens of thousands' of votes

Unity government? Liberman plus the religious right? Gantz getting Arab support? With inconclusive results, someone will have to compromise to avoid 3rd elections in a year

Leading parties both at 32 seats; MK Avigdor Liberman, with 9 seats, repeats pledge that he will only join a broad unity government

Party lawmakers unfazed by murky path to a coalition government, after exit polls, urge caution until final results come in