Benjamin Netanyahu

Israeli PM defiant as global outcry grows over attempts to evict Palestinian residents in occupied East Jerusalem.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s opponents have a chance to end the run of Israel’s longest-serving leader.

PM Netanyahu’s political future in doubt as president asks leader of centrist Yesh Atid party to try to form coalition.

Pledges by the Biden administration to change course in the Israel-Palestinian conflict are unlikely to materialise.

Israel’s election ended with neither a Netanyahu-led bloc nor an alliance of his opponents winning a majority.

Prime minister appears in court at his corruption trial as President Rivlin begins talks on who should lead the gov’t.

Whether Israel can form a government may not be known for weeks with the possibility of a fifth election in two years.

Final tally shows PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and its allies eight seats short of a majority to lead country.

Elections have left a thin margin between a bloc led by Netanyahu and an array of parties bent on removing him.

Without defections, each side needs the support of Mansour Abbas, leader of the United Arab List, to form a government.

Exit polls from Israel’s fourth election in two years show a parliament divided between pro- and anti-Netanyahu blocs.

Known as ‘Bibi’, Netanyahu joined the Israeli army in 1967 and soon became an elite commando.

Latest polls show even the fourth election in two years is unlikely to provide Israel with much-needed stability.

Large crowds take to Jerusalem’s streets, three days before Israel holds fourth general election in less than two years.