Likud ordered to pay rival NIS 40,000 in compensation for taking excerpts from Yesh Atid video and creating satire version without identifying it as a Likud production

Consultants advise PM to visit LGBT center, mental health clinic, kibbutz, and nursery in order to showcase differences between him and opposition leader

PM speaks of plans for laws blocking Netanyahu, commits to fight cost of living, pass ultra-Orthodox enlistment and civil marriage, keep Israel 'democratic, Jewish, liberal'

In shift from right to center, pro-annexation MK who denounced Lapid as amateur in previous elections now joins his party, a 'wall against those who try to break us up from within'

Latest survey has opposition leader just one short of the required minimum to form a government; the bloc led by Lapid forecast to win 54 seats

Ahead of elections, caretaker PM says right-wing rivals are divisive and anti-democratic, calls on moderates to reject their vision of Israel

PM calls for domestic unity, but also assails right-religious bloc as 'those who think only of their own good' and a threat to Israeli democracy

Foreign minister, expected to be sworn in as caretaker PM next week, vows to face Israel's challenges as country hurtles toward another round of elections

Retired general was one of the most sought-after figures during the March 2021 election cycle, with his name linked in reports to several parties

FM says situation could deteriorate 'quickly and dramatically'; eight extra flights between Israel and Ukraine to become available this week