Due to the pandemic, the conference went online with appearances by President Rivlin and U.S. Ambassador Friedman. On the agenda: Israel’s duty towards Jewish communities in time of coronavirus
Israeli court ruled Tuesday that Malka Leifer, accused of 74 counts of rape and sexual assault in Australia, is fit to stand trial and renewed extradition process
Annual Western Wall ceremony held without an audience, as bereaved families kept at home over coronavirus restrictions
Netanyahu, Rivlin speak at pre-recorded ceremony at Yad Vashem marking Holocaust Remembrance Day. Rivlin: Hatred and anti-Semitism too spread like a contagion
President Rivlin refuses to extend Gantz’s mandate or hand it over to Netanyahu, plunging politics into mayhem
Netanyahu could be forced to give Gantz his post if High Court rules indicted politicians cannot serve as prime minister. Kahol Lavan still wants coalition, but possibly not enough to agree to Likud’s new terms
Gantz, who is still negotiating a unity deal with Netanyahu, has until Monday at midnight to form a government
Rivlin apologizes on Twitter, saying she regularly helps him after his wife passed away
By preventing the formation of the organizing committee, Speaker Yuli Edelstein also hampers the formation of the Knesset oversight committees on the coronavirus crisis
'There are no half-citizens,' Rivlin says in a jab aimed at Netanyahu as he received official election results
Kahol Lavan also to discuss forming minority government with support of Arab-majority Joint List
‘Balfour is ours and we’re not giving it up,' chant PM supporters
The former school principal, facing dozens of charges, has been fighting extradition from Israel for years, with the legal wrangle to bring her before an Australian court causing a diplomatic strain between the allies
Lawyers for Ehud Olmert, who served jail time on corruption charges, based request on his contributions to the state, while Olmert has expressed interest in returning to public life
As Netanyahu vows to annex, Rivlin warns IDF officers that political deadlock may continue. The responsibility to put out the fires, he implies, rests with them
Israeli president asks his Peruvian counterpart to free Hodaya Monsonego, who has physical and mental health issues and has been jailed for six months
'We can't give up,' Rivlin urges Palestinians and Israelis at ceremony in Berlin to commemorate the victims of Nazi Germany
Israel's president refused to mince his words and said that 'too few' Poles helped their Jewish neighbors, aligning himself with Yad Vashem's historians rather than Netanyahu's version
Nochi Dankner, the former head of the IDB group, started serving his sentence for insider trading in October 2018
The event has caused tensions between the offices of Netanyahu and President Rivlin, who fears Netanyahu will hijack the event for his re-election campaign
Nochi Dankner, the former controlling owner of the IDB Holding Corp. who was convicted in July 2016 of stock manipulation, was transferred to a secure facility after another prisoner filed a complaint against him
President lambastes 'long, exhausting, aimless negotiations' after yet another Likud-Kahol Lavan meeting that ended with no breakthrough, just a week before a deadline to prevent a new election
Rivlin may visit the kingdom after meeting a delegation of Jordanian officials in London this week following Abdullah's statement that relations are at 'all-time low'
Kahol Lavan rejects outline proposed by Knesset speaker in which Netanyahu would lead the government for several months and then step down
After both Gantz and Netanyahu failed to form a coalition, any Knesset member backed by 61 lawmakers could be tasked with forming coalition, with lawmakers having 21 days to nominate a candidate
The next 21 days will determine whether Israel is headed to a third election cycle within a year, as the nomination of a leader to form a government now goes to the Knesset floor