Benny Gantz's Kahol Lavan alliance overtakes prime minister's Likud by one seat, 34-33, in new Channel 12 News election poll

Kahol Lavan says move is attempt by Netanyahu to deflect attention from indictment in corruption cases ■ Knesset unlikely to approve change in election method as it may dissolve in four days

Omer Bar-Lev says he will attempt to gather the requisite 61 signatures to recommend that Likud's number two, Yuli Edelstein, establish a coalition

Yisrael Katz told Italy's Corriere della Sera: 'If it were the last possible way to stop this, we would act militarily'

The piece by Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek sought to clear Corbyn, but was rebuked itself for anti-Semitism

Proposal could deal another blow to the increasingly fraught Israeli-Australian relations five years after Malka Leifer's extradition was first requested

Putin is backing both of the country's warring sides ■ Moscow's moves have awakened Washington, but it's not clear what it has to offer

Currency tumbles to record lows, well-to-do Syrians suddenly cut off from cash savings as Lebanese banks impose tight controls