Mansour Abbas' party would support an Eisenkot government even without guarantees of fund allocation, legislative goals or policy declarations, a senior party official said. Abbas told Haaretz that his priority is to replace Netanyahu's government

In a frantic recorded address, Netanyahu played the unity card – as usual, only when cornered – in a bid to run down Eisenkot's mandate and prevent his bloc from taking control of the Knesset

Choosing a secular life was not an escape from my past, but a sober, conscious choice made with my eyes wide open