Prime Minister-elect Benjamin Netanyahu had hoped to inaugurate the next Cabinet concurrently, but coalition negotiations have hit an impasse.

Some on the Right have set their sights on raising the bar necessary to convert for the purposes of aliyah, which could undo a Supreme Court ruling.

Tawfik Tirawi, a former head of the Palestinian General Intelligence Service (GIS) and one of the most senior figures in the PLO, finds himself at the center of an affair that has rocked the Palestinian Authority.

If Israel is defeated in the West Bank as it was in Gaza, thousands of Israelis will flee, Hamas co-founder says.

“We have very little misunderstanding,” Biden told reporters in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where he participated in a gathering of southeast Asian nations before leaving for Indonesia. “We just got to figure out where the red lines are and ... what are the most important things to each of us going into the next two years.”