On two occasions over this past week, Netanyahu's bodyguards have drawn long guns on Israeli civilians, behavior that telegraphs a sense of intense, even mortal, personal embattlement. Netanyahu does not just fear an Iranian assassination plot – he fears Israel's own citizens

The transfers, providing about 400 million shekels ($134 million) to the Education Ministry and the Settlement and National Missions Ministry, were approved last month in what opposition MKs claim to be a rushed procedure by the Knesset Finance Committee

The retired IDF general said at his party's launch event that 'There is only one solution for Gaza – emigration.' The newest actor to emerge on Israel's far-right political scene could draw votes from Smotrich or the right flank of the anti-Netanyahu bloc