President to pick next candidate for premier after Netanyahu returns mandate
Binyamin Netanyahu informed the president at midnight Tuesday, May 4, that he had failed to set up a government in
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President Reuven Rivlin
Unwillingly tapped by President, Netanyahu may settle for minority government
Binyamin Netanyahu faces the formidable task of putting together a functioning ruling coalition while short of a majority, after he
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Hectic scramble for presidential mandate to form next government
President Reuven Rivlin must next Wednesday, April 7, break Israel’s election deadlock and choose the party leader best able to
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Opposition leader Gantz to be charged with forming government
At noon Monday, March 16, President Reuven Rivlin ceremonially charges opposition Kahol Lavan leader Benny Gantz with forming the next
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President gives Netanyahu mission impossible: Forming new government amid post-election deadlock
President Reuven Rivlin reluctantly handed incumbent PM Binyamin Netanyahu the mandate to form a post-election government on Wednesday, Sept. 25,
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Reuven Rivlin wins the presidency in a run-off vote
Reuven Rivlin, 75, Likud stalwart and twice Knesset Speaker, was elected Israeli’s tenth president by the Knesset on Tuesday, June
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