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Neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or Alternate Prime Minister and Defense Minister Benny Gantz were present for the vote.

NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Had Netanyahu not alienated right-wing allies such as Bennett, Sa’ar and Liberman, he would not be in this predicament.

Two historians joined Jewish philosopher Stanislaw Krajewski in resigning over what they called a form of “politicization” of the state museum.

Many commentators from the Right suggest that the refusal to sit in a government led by Netanyahu is all about petty politics.

Bennett source: "We are working on building a government under Netanyahu and with his bloc. But it can only advance the moment that Smotrich will find a solution to his problem with Mansour Abbas."

President Reuven Rivlin didn’t do either man any favors when he gave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the first option to form a government.

The influence of the far Right on Netanyahu's power has been driving a wedge between Israel and American Jewry.

The Religious Zionist Party secured six seats and 225,000 votes in the election, giving it small but significant representation, and huge leverage.

The Religious Zionist Party secured six seats and 225,000 votes in the election, giving it small but significant representation, and huge leverage.

“Don’t stay at home as if it [voting] doesn’t matter,” Netanyahu said, adding that, “it does matter.”