While the number 61 is Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud’s dream figure, it could spell a nightmare for the smaller parties on the right if the former prime minister decides to form a government with Gantz.
He is gathering research for his next book on Israeli security threats, traveling along the often tense borders with Gaza, Syria and Lebanon. Details of his trip, including visits to the Temple Mount, the Al-Aqsa mosque compound and the Western Wall have made waves on social media.
Does the open approach of Steffen Seibert mark a new era of friendship between Germany and Israel, or do his kind words belie a "business as usual" approach?
"Slowly, the country is becoming more open to different viewpoints, and people are starting to accept the fact that Jews are not our enemies," says Mohammed Saud.
The latest operation against terrorists in the Gaza Strip was exceptional not only in its success, but its precision. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad surely regrets escalating tensions, but Israel must still grapple with the fact that Gaza is still Gaza.
Head of the National Public Diplomacy Directorate Lior Haiat speaks with Israel Hayom about how his unit worked to uncover Palestinian lies during Operation Breaking Dawn, including an attempt to present a failed Islamic Jihad rocket launch, which hit Gazans, as an attack by the Israeli military.
Iranian American Jews make strides in politics on both coasts, relishing their US freedom "The more we in the Iranian community get involved in government, the more integrated we become into the fabric of this country," says attorney Makan Delrahim.
Ibrahim Nablusi, the leader of an Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade cell in Nablus has risen to the level of a local icon. Palestinian propaganda aside, the real issue is that the IDF has for the past two years trusted PA security forces to keep terrorism in northern Samaria in check.
Notorious terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, known as Carlos the Jackal, recalls how he joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine after getting expelled from university and abducted dozens of ministers at the behest of Libyan revolutionary Muammar Gaddafi, only to be betrayed by the leader he held in high regard.
Extremist Jewish, Arab, and Jewish-Arab groups are already discussing the pragmatic aspects of bringing Palestinian refugees back - not only to Judea and Samaria, but to all territory abandoned in 1948. This would mean an end to the state of Israel, experts warn.