The Likud Party and the United Right-Wing (Bayit Yehudi/Ichud Leumi) party are formulating a far-reaching document that will fundamentally change the relationship between the Israeli authorities by means of 16 steps, with the goal of restoring governance, Yisrael Hayom political commentator Matti Tuchfeld reports on Monday morning.

The coalition negotiations ahead of the next government continued in earnest, despite the expected delay in real progress with Yahadut Hatorah (YH), following the massive Chilul Shabbos surrounding the Eurovision Song Contest.

Following what is being called a stormy session, the Knesset Finance Committee, which is chaired by MK Moshe Gafne, approved extending financial aid to residents of Gaza border communities.

Border police during the night of Sunday to Monday, May 12th to 13th, came under attack with stones and fireworks in the area of the Shar Shechem entrance to Jerusalem’s Old City.
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Firefighters during the night from the Nachshon station, under the commander of Major Yaron Aburkart, worked to extinguish a burning vehicle at the Shar HaGai Interchange on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv Highway, in the direction of Jerusalem.
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The U.N. envoy to the Mideast says it’s the “last chance” to prevent an all-out conflict between Israel and Gaza militants.
Nikolay Mladenov said on Monday that the “risk of war remains imminent,” a week after a cease-fire between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers ended the worst fighting since a 2014 war.

The Polish government canceled a visit by an Israeli delegation that had been planned for Monday, saying the Israeli government made last-minute changes that suggested it would focus on the issue of the restitution of former Jewish property.
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An Israeli woman was killed and three other Israeli citizens were injured in a vehicular accident that occurred on Monday morning in Portugal, the Israel Foreign Ministry confirms. The families in Israel have been notified.
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Negotiators representing chareidi parties working to form a coalition government are working to protect the salaries of kindergartens teachers, particularly those in the chareidi system, Kikar Shabbos News reports. They point out that this is particularly necessary pertaining in cases when funds for salaries seem to disappear, stating this outrageous phenomenon must soon disappear.

Two Saudi oil tankers were targeted in what is being labeled a “sabotage attack” off the coast of the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, Saudi Arabia’s minister of energy reports.
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