On Monday, Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman is scheduled to meet with representatives from some of Israel's religious parties, in an attempt to come to some sort of understanding over the differences that are standing in the way of a narrow far right...
It hasn't even been a week since the Labor Party publicly ruled out joining a right-wing coalition government headed by Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu, but the prospect of moving from a key ministership to head of a secondary opposition party already has party...
It was a familiar story today when Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party met with their centrist rival Kadima (the top vote-getting in this month's elections) on forming a coalition. A lot of talk, no agreements, and both sides blaming the other for the failure. Kadima...
Having apparently failed in his attempts to court the Kadima and Labor parties into a grand coalition, Benjamin Netanyahu's attempts at forming a far-right government seem to be faltering as well. While everyone seems to be on board for the Likud leader's hawkish...
Over a month since hostilities halted, much of the Gaza Strip remains in ruins, untouched since it was obliterated by the Israeli invasion. The issue isn't money: Saudi Arabia's pledge of $1 billion soon after the war ended has been followed up by major pledges from...
Citing the likely far-right nature of the next Israeli government, a senior Palestinian Authority official has declared the peace process between the two parties dead. The unnamed official declared that the next Israeli government would be "an extremist government...
Citing war crimes committed against civilians by both sides in last month's war in the Gaza Strip, Amnesty International urged in a report today that the international community impose an arms embargo on both the Israeli government and the Hamas government, as well as...
The question of whether or not to enter a center-right coalition government with the Likud Party remains a controversial one in the Kadima Party, and while party leader Tzipi Livni continues to publicly rule it out, Netanyahu isn't giving up. Today, the would-be prime...
Even as he seems to have consolidated his support on the Israeli right, Benjamin Netanyahu's long-standing ambition to form a grand coalition including "all of the Zionist parties" seems to be very close to dead in the water. Ehud Barak's Labor Party today ruled out...
Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu has been charged with the task of attempting to form a coalition government, and while he would be able to piece together a coalition simply with the right-wing parties that supported his leadership bid, he is hoping to attract a...
