Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (front) and former Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman sit in the Knesset, May 23, 2016. ... It keeps him in office at least until September (and ensures he will become Israel’s longest-serving prime minister on July 16). ..…

It started in 1948 when Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, agreed to give deferments for 400 yeshiva students. ..…

President Trump will make effort to help Benjamin Netanyahu retain his post as Israel's prime minister after he was in forging government by Wednesday's deadline. ..…

The election is necessary because, for the first time in Israel’s history, a prime minister-designate failed to form a coalition government. . ... The law dates back to an agreement between the Haredi Jews and David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime..…