Bringing together a governing coalition took Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu nearly as long as the campaign, and ended no better for him. His party having finished first in the Jan. 22 ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed Israel's president Monday he could not form a new government following deadlocked September elections, making way for his opponent Benny Gantz to try. The ...

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich declares that in 2021, he prevented Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from forming a coalition including Mansour Abbas’ Islamist Ra’am party. “Under no circumstances ...

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett said on Tuesday that Israel needed “new leadership” following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks, indicating that he would not be willing to form a government ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on his main challenger Benny Gantz on Thursday to form a unity government together as election results showed both without an obvious path to a ...