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Yamina party leader Naftali Bennett, left, smiles as he speaks to Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid during a special session of the Knesset, whereby Israeli lawmakers elect a new president, at the plenum in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem on Wednesday, June 2, 2021. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool Photo via AP)

‘Government of change’: Unwieldy alliance apparently ends Netanyahu’s long reign in Israel

By Jacob Wirtschafter - Special to The Washington Times

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, Sunday, May 30, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Pool via AP)

Opponents of Israeli PM Netanyahu hash out unity deal as deadline looms

By Ilan Ben Zion - Associated Press

Palestinian children wave green Hamas and their national flags as they stand on the rubble of a destroyed building while celebrating the cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas in Gaza City, early Friday, May 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Palestinians claim victory as Gaza truce faces early test

By Fares Akram and Joseph Krauss - Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures as he shows a slideshow during a briefing to ambassadors to Israel at the Hakirya military base in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, May 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, Pool)

WH: Joe Biden tells Benjamin Netanyahu he expects immediate de-escalation to violence

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks with Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., left, and Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich, as he arrives at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Detroit, Tuesday, May 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

White House declines to insist on an immediate Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

An Israeli airstrike hits the high-rise building housing The Associated Press’ offices in Gaza City, Saturday, May 15, 2021. The airstrike Saturday came roughly an hour after the Israeli military ordered people to evacuate the building. There was no immediate explanation for why the building was targeted. The building housed The Associated Press, Al-Jazeera and a number of offices and apartment. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Netanyahu defends destroying Gaza building as AP calls for investigation

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

An injured Palestinian demonstrator is helped during a protest against the planned evictions of Palestinian families in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of east Jerusalem, Saturday, May 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

More Jerusalem clashes on eve of contentious Israeli parade

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press

In this March 14, 2021, file photo, people stand in front of an election campaign billboard for the Likud party showing a portrait of its leader Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and opposition party leader Yair Lapid, in Ramat Gan, Israel. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has tapped Lapid to form a new government, a step that could lead to the end of Netanyahu's lengthy rule. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

For first time in a long time, Netanyahu’s rule threatened

By Josef Federman - Associated Press

REPLACES COMMON GOOD INSTEAD OF COMMON GROUND - Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid, speaks during a news conference in Tel Aviv, Thursday, May. 6, 2021. Lapid called on his potential partners to find &quot;common good&quot; and expressed optimism that a new coalition government would be formed. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Netanyahu challenger issues call for national unity

Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 24, 2021, file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves to his supporters after the first exit poll results for the Israeli parliamentary elections at his Likud party's headquarters in Jerusalem. Netanyahu missed a midnight deadline for putting together a new coalition government. His failure to reach an agreement late Tuesday, May 4, 2021, raises the possibility that Netanyahu’s Likud party could be pushed into the opposition for the first time in 12 years. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

Israeli coalition talks resume after PM misses deadline

By MOSHE EDRI - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, April 14, 2021, file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Memorial Day ceremony at the military cemetery at Mount Herzl, Jerusalem. Netanyahu faces a midnight deadline on Tuesday, May 4, to put together a new coalition government. If he fails, he faces the possibility of leading his Likud party into the opposition for the first time in 12 years. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, Pool, File)

Israel’s Netanyahu faces midnight deadline to form a coalition

By Josef Federman - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, April 14, 2021 file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Memorial Day ceremony at the military cemetery at Mount Herzl, Jerusalem. Netanyahu faces a midnight deadline on Tuesday, May 4, to put together a new coalition government. If he fails, he faces the possibility of leading his Likud party into the opposition for the first time in 12 years. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, Pool, File)

Israel’s Netanyahu faces midnight deadline to form coalition

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

Israeli Avigdor Chiyuis, center, speaks during the funeral of his son Yedidyia Chiyuis at a cemetery in Petah Tikva, Sunday, May 2, 2021. A stampede at a religious festival attended by tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews in northern Israel killed dozens of people and injured about 150 early Friday, medical officials said. It was one of the country's deadliest civilian disasters. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Officials scrutinized as Israel mourns 45 killed at festival

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press

3 Israelis wounded in West Bank shooting ambush

Associated Press

Israeli security officials and rescuers stand around the bodies of victims who died during a Lag Ba'Omer celebrations at Mt. Meron in northern Israel, Friday, April 30, 2021. The director of an Israeli ambulance service has confirmed that nearly 40 people died in a stampede at a religious festival in northern Israel. (Ishay Jerusalemite/Behadrei Haredim via AP)

Israel mourns deaths of 45 in stampede at religious festival

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and ISAAC SCHARF - Associated Press

Israeli security officials and rescuers carry a body of a victim who died during a Lag Ba'Omer celebrations at Mt. Meron in northern Israel, Friday, April 30, 2021. More than 100 people were injured, dozens critically, in a stampede at a Jewish religious gathering in northern Israel attended by tens of thousands of people, Israel's main rescue service said early Friday. (AP Photo)

Stampede at Israeli religious festival kills nearly 40

By JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2020 file photo, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert takes questions from reporters after a news conference in New York. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is threatening to sue his predecessor, Olmert, for defamation. Netanyahu is reportedly seeking over $300,000 in damages if Olmert does not apologize for saying the Israeli leader’s family suffers from mental illness. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Israeli PM threatens defamation suit against predecessor

Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, April 14, 2021 file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Memorial Day ceremony at the military cemetery at Mount Herzl, Jerusalem. Netanyahu is pushing for a new law to allow direct elections of the nation's leader as a way to break the country's two-year, protracted political deadlock. The proposal would guarantee Netanyahu another term as prime minister after he and his religious and nationalist allies failed to win a clear majority in March 23 elections. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, Pool, File)

Israel’s Netanyahu backs bill for direct election for PM

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press

Sunlight peeks through clouds over a section of the West Bank Jewish settlement of Efrat, March 12, 2021. Israel went on an aggressive settlement spree during the Trump era, according to an AP investigation, pushing deeper into the occupied West Bank than ever before and putting the Biden administration into a bind as it seeks to revive Mideast peace efforts. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Trump-era spike in Israeli settlement growth has only begun

By JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

This satellite photo from Planet Labs Inc. shows Iran's Natanz nuclear facility on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Iran's Natanz nuclear site suffered a problem Sunday, April 11, involving its electrical distribution grid just hours after starting up new advanced centrifuges that more quickly enrich uranium, state TV reported. It was the latest incident to strike one of Tehran's most-secured sites amid negotiations over the tattered atomic accord with world powers. (Planet Labs Inc. via AP)

Iran blames Israel for sabotage at Natanz nuclear site

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press