Incoming PM is also facing Smotrich's demand for the Finance Ministry; meanwhile, Likud MKs see their negotiating power for top jobs reduced, particularly Israel Katz

Israel's left has been in freefall for 3 decades. It didn't lose ground in the election; it simply woke up to the mismatch between its political institutions and the electorate

Source tells Israeli network ties will suffer, threatens that Ben Gvir visiting flashpoint site as a minister would be seen differently by Amman than when he went there as an MK

Shay Selami accused of killing Yafit Furian after she said she wanted to leave him and he found she was corresponding with a male colleague; their 4 children were home at the time

How has the role of Zionism and Israel in U.S. politics evolved over American history? David and 'The Arc of a Covenant' author Walter Russell Mead address this question and more.

Turnout was up overall, but especially for Netanyahu's bloc, and most of all among Haredim. And while he optimized his bloc to beat the threshold, his opponents emphatically didn't

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29% of Haredi respondents expressed unwillingness to make a lifestyle change to help the climate, compared with 10% of Arabs and 6% of the general public.