Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main rival both claimed Tuesday's election after exit polls pointed to dead heat in fiercely contested race — presaging new fight on the battleground of the arcane system of coalition-building... ..…

The Blue and White party has been Netanyahu’s main challenger since Gantz joined forces with Yair Lapid‘s Yesh Atid in February. . ..…

'You could argue it is a national referendum on Netanyahu,' says Jonathan Spyer, fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies. 'You see this in the main opposition party, Blue and White, that is a gathering of people, many of whom have nothing in common in terms of policy but what..…

But after Israel’s attorney general announced during the campaign that the prime minister faced corruption indictments, Netanyahu has had every incentive to plumb new depths. . His officials have stated that his main rival, Benny Gantz, a general he once appointed as military chief of..…

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif slammed the decision by the US administration on labeling the IRGC a 'foreign terrorist organization', seeing Trump's close ties with Netanyahu as a main contributor to the gravely wrong move made by the US president ahead of the Tuesday election..…