Joint slate, to be called United Right, will recommend Netanyahu form next coalition, but excludes far-right Otzma Yehudit, leaving Likud fuming over prospect of wasted votes

Phone calls published by Channel 12 confirm PM's wife was urging Rafi Peretz's wife to keep her husband from conceding top spot

It’s not European. And it doesn’t divide into right and left, religious and secular. Matti Friedman, author of a new book about Mizrahi spies, on why Israel baffles and infuriates

Left-wing alliance confirmed; agreement includes commitment to strive for two-state solution, not to join right-wing government, and to cancel Jewish nation-state law

In effort to pressure Shaked's new bloc to fold in Otzma Yehudit as well, pair of ultra-nationalist-religious factions say agreement won't go into effect for another 36 hours

New Right's No. 2 says proposed joint slate with other national-religious factions would form 'technical bloc' to help ensure all parties clear electoral threshold

MK says he respects party leader's decision not to merge with Meretz and Ehud Barak’s Israel Democratic Party, despite his own support for left-wing alliance

Targeting Israeli-Russian voters, Likud hangs massive picture of PM alongside Russian president, with the slogan 'Netanyahu, in a different league'

Dust-up comes with polls showing Labor dipping perilously close to the threshold for entering Knesset

Right-wing parties continue to disagree over who will lead a united slate; Channel 12 reports Peretz has threatened to quit if he loses lead spot -- he calls the claim 'drivel'