Jerusalem Daily: Who will form Israel’s next government?
Netanyahu and Eisenkot are locked in a struggle to form a governing coalition in the Knesset. Accusations of foreign interference continue to fly, but officials are dismissing them as mere attempts to undermine the election results. Al Jazeera’s Mohammad Saleh has the latest.
Israel has announced its final election results, tightened its siege on Hebron, and arrested people returning to Gaza.
With neither voting bloc able to form government following Israeli's elections, Benjamin Netanyahu is attacking the legitimacy of Palestinian-Israeli votes.
He says creating a society in which there is no room for questions is not a sign of good governance
UK chancellor’s plans add to concerns government is moving away from pro-renewables agenda John Healey has said he will veto new offshore wind projects if they will not lower bills, adding to concerns that the government is moving away from the pro-renewables agenda. Announcing his plans, the chancellor said clean power is “how we break the grip of international gas prices on our bills”, but added the shift towards it “has to come at the right pace, in the right places, with the grid to carry it”.
But the political implications are radical Following Wednesday’s budget, the Treasury minister, Torsten Bell, was challenged by the BBC’s Evan Davis on whether its modest series of “breathing space” measures could truly be said to have ended “40 years of neoliberalism”. Recalling how “Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s hugely hollowed out local government
The prime minister has ridden out plenty of political turbulence before, but now economic headwinds are being compounded by growing frustration within his own ranks.