Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay pushed for early elections during the government's latest crisis, but colleagues convinced him to reverse course

Delek Energy shares soar after parent offers to take company private ■ Elbit Systems slates internal changes ahead of IMI takeover ■ Strauss reports 34% jump in quarterly net profit ■ Biomed stocks take Tel Aviv Stock Exchange lower

This is the third incident in recent weeks in which the Israeli army encountered explosives at border

The new amendment introduced by the Health Ministry will take effect in a month; many patients using the drug have complained before of restricted movement since they were not permitted to drive at all

The nation-state bill in its current form enables de-facto geographic separation between Arabs and Jews; Israel's deputy state attorney has already warned it is a 'blatant discrimination against human beings'

There is nothing to stand up against Netanyahu. The regime he created has no opposition, and it seems to be the opposition's own fault

Report sees 3-3.5% growth ahead, but says congestion on the roads and low participation of ultra-Orthodox communities in the labor market hurts economic growth

Many media advisers (four of whom advised Netanyahu) have become 'prostituted. In the most recent cases, the work they were doing wasn't about what a media consultant does,' a PR expert says of the issue