Nitzan Horowitz and Amir Peretz increasingly like their chances of helping forge a center-left government, instead of Benny Gantz forming one with a Netanyahu-less Likud
Religious Zionist politics have never looked as miserable as it has this past week
Move comes after PM's efforts to convince parties to Likud's right to unite ■ Kahol Lavan party member defects to Likud ■ Prominent left-wing lawmaker Shaffir announces won't run
Creation of a panel tasked with discussing the premier's immunity is now a fait accompli, despite Knesset speaker's resistance ■ Labor and Meretz are entering into a shotgun wedding
Paradoxically, a lifting of Bibi’s immunity from prosecution may help him in the election ■ Meanwhile, the political maneuvering on the left almost makes the right seem like softies
With $14.5 million in taxpayer money, Netanyahu has launched a campaign to re-brand immunity
The PM did his best to avoid having to seek parliamentary immunity, but knowing a trial is inevitable, he’s playing for time
The prime minister's distorted lessons in democracy show how desperate he is ahead of a midweek deadline to seek a parliamentary shield against indictment
Despite his Likud primary win, any connection between the outside world and the mystical devotion of the party’s members to their leader isn’t loose, it’s nonexistent
Next up for Netanyahu: appointing four new ministers, a strategic decision on whether to seek immunity and then the March election, where even greater dangers may lurk
Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein and Gilad 'Traitor' Erdan's lose-lose situation ■ Justice Minister Ohana keeps slashing away at the legal establishment ■ Labor-Gesher stick to a campaign strategy that has already failed
With each election – and yet another one was called this week – his chances of gaining the top spot again recede further into the distance, but Benjamin Netanyahu remains determined to hold on
What has long since crossed the lines of absurdity and logic is the obsequiousness to Netanyahu of his right-wing bloc members
When the Kahol Lavan leader presented Netanyahu waiving immunity as a condition to forming a unity government, he hit the defendant from Balfour Street in his soft underbelly
Between Netanyahu and Gantz, and among the members of Kahol Lavan's leadership – discord is rife, unity is passé, and promises are unraveling
Manipulations and repetitions: Benny Gantz must be watching this stalled process with an ominous sense of deja-vu
For the sake of gaining a few more months in the Prime Minister’s Office, anything goes
Burning hatred for state symbols could be felt in every corner. Now come the election campaigns and attacks on judges
As the hourglass ran down for Gantz to form a government, a paranoid Netanyahu saw plots to remove him at every turn
It was totally clear in his remarks Thursday: The embattled prime minister aims to accuse the legal system of launching a coup against him – and wait for the masses to follow his lead
Unity government is off the table, unless a Netanyahu bribery indictment or a large-scale military confrontation shake things up
The two drivers of Israel's main parties are barreling toward a collision - and a third election
The prime minister is plotting what he'll do while on trial – because going home is not an option
Chances of a unity government have supposedly become greater after the killing of an Islamic Jihad commander – but it's far from a done deal
This week could prove to be decisive for Israel's messy political minefield
The illegal performance by Justice Minister Ohana this week has shown Netanyahu who's really calling the shots
Amir Ohana’s attempt to intimidate Nir Hefetz amounts to witness harassment
Netanyahu is gunning for a third election. Helping lead the charge is the justice minister, who dumped a pail of sewage on state prosecutors
Facing probable indictment, Netanyahu is now using everything left in his arsenal
For the first time in over a decade, Netanyahu finds someone else tasked with forming a government. But Gantz won't have an easy time of it, and a third election looms