Netanyahu's Likud party

Lapid said he wanted the creation of a "national reconstruction government", which could be led by Netanyahu's Likud party, but that it was important for Netanyahu to go, the BBC reported.

The situation in Israel is getting more and more complicated. There will be no flights from Ben Gurion International Airport until further notice as part of a large-scale strike announced by the Labor Union on Monday morning to protest judicial reform. This was announced by the chairman of the Committee of Airport Authorities of Israel, Pinchas Idan, quoted by the Jerusalem Post.

Israel was approaching the end of an era after the last-minute formation of a motley coalition that could in the next few days oust veteran leader Benjamin Netanyahu, the country's longest-serving prime minister.

The Israel Tax Authority said on April 11 it was imposing a value added tax on local sales by international Internet-based firms, a change that could affect multinational giants like Google, Amazon and Facebook.

Prior to the new directive, a foreign company's income from sales in Israel would be taxed only if the product was produced locally.     

Just after voting ended in Israel's parliamentary elections, the result looks too close to call, exit poll data suggests.

PM Netanyahu's Likud party and the opposition Zionist Union of Isaac Herzog are reported tied (with 27 seats in the 120-seat Parliament) in surveys of the public broadcasters Channel 10 and Channel 1, according to English-language Israeli media outlets.

Israelis voted March 17 in an election expected to be a close-fought battle between the centre left and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who ruled out a Palestinian state in a last-ditch appeal to the right.
     

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, trailing in opinion polls two days before a parliamentary election, publicly offered on March 15 the Finance Ministry portfolio to a potentially king-making rival.
   

Despite Benjamin Netanyahu's best efforts to flag security as the biggest issue keeping Israelis awake at night, the reality is far more mundane. For most voters, it is the price of housing that matters.

Israel is to hold a snap election on March 17, the parliament's spokesman said Dec. 3, following a crisis within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's fractious coalition government.