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29 Mar 2021; MEMO: Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid on Sunday met with Head of the Ra'am Party Mansour Abbas to discuss forming a coalition government, Israeli media reported.

27 Mar 2021; MEMO: A senior Israeli military official has declared on Friday that his country has the ability to "completely destroy Iran's nuclear programme."

Tal Kalman, head of the Strategic Division and the Third-Circle Directorate of the Israeli army, told Israel Today that 2020 was a "good" year concerning war against Iran.

28 Mar 2021; MEMO: Likud MK Ayoub Kara had a 'warm meeting' with Joint List splitter party Ra'am's leader Mansour Abbas on Saturday, i24 News reported.

Kara thanked Abbas for a 'warm meeting' and went on to plead with fellow right-wingers to differentiate between Ra'am and its former parliamentary allies, the predominantly Arab Joint List.

26 Mar 2021; MEMO: In the latest opposition to the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, favoured by staunch advocates of the state of Israel, a group of over 200 academics and experts have created a new anti-Semitism definition which excludes the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and several other e

27 Mar 2021; MEMO: Israel Hayom has reported Head of the Israeli Likud Party Benjamin Netanyahu starting contacts with Arab Israeli MK Mansour Abbas, head of the Islamic Movement's southern branch, to form a new coalition government, Shehab News Agency reported on Friday.

27 Mar 2021; MEMO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has escalated the spat with Jordan as he turned down the Jordanian request to increase water supplies to the kingdom, Arab48.com reported on Friday.

Netanyahu's rejection to allow increased water supplies to Jordan came against Israel's security services' recommendations.

26 Mar 2021; MEMO: A group of six Palestinian and Israeli human rights groups have appealed to Israel's Supreme Court to demand that the state should provide vaccines to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.

JERUSALEM, Mar 26 (NNN-MA’AN) – Counting of the votes, in Israel’s parliamentary elections continued yesterday, as the fourth election in two years has emerged as yet another political stalemate.

With nearly 90 percent of the votes counted, Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc was projected to win 52 seats — nine seats short of the threshold needed, for a majority in the 120-seat parliament, according to figures issued by the Central Elections Committee, which oversees the elections.

26 Mar 2021; MEMO: A state of deep division has prevailed among members of Israel's Likud party, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, over the need to ask Arab parties to join the next coalition government, Haaretz reported.

The paper said the party's members have engaged in a heated debate on WhatsApp, where a clear majority of its members and Knesset lawmakers strongly opposed the idea.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s prospects of forming a new coalition government after an indecisive election were further complicated on Thursday by a far-right refusal of any prospective parliamentary partnership with an Islamist party.

Partial tallies from Tuesday’s ballot showed Netanyahu’s conservative Likud and ideologically kindred factions short of a majority in the 120-seat Knesset - raising the possibility he would seek some sort of accommodation with the United Arab List.