With both blocs short of a 61-seat majority, their leaders and respective allies must decide which divisive issues are worth prioritizing, and which promises are worth reneging on
Golan meets Eisenkot, Lapid and Mansour Abbas in coalition push; Ra'am leader says minority government unlikely; Liberman keeps distance from opposition partners; opposition chiefs vow fraud probe won't delay new Knesset
The ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party would abstain from votes rather than join the coalition, according to Channel 12; military draft remains major obstacle to agreement
Shin Bet, whose chief had praised vote on election day, stresses suspicions remain unproven and do not implicate Arab voters as a whole; police say no basis for Likud's claims of stolen election
Election panel head Noam Sohlberg has told the Shin Bet to probe allegations of foreign influence, reported to involve Qatari funding for an Arab get-out-the-vote effort. Why is that illegal, and what could its fallout be?
'We are together and we are staying together,' PM quoted as saying to Ben Gvir and Smotrich; Golan says he intends to meet with fellow 'change bloc' leaders as Liberman said to ghost them
After Sephardic party wins just 7 seats, faction's spiritual leader Yitzhak Yosef takes steps to replace powerful chairman, though insiders say move will be difficult to pull off