Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Alternate Prime Minister Yair Lapid have decided to dissolve the current government and hold new elections. The decision was made after the two exhausted efforts to preserve the current coalition, which has seen numerous crisis in recent months • Full story

Israeli Prime Minister, Mr. Naftali Bennett, arrived on Friday morning at the Russian city of Sochi for a formal meeting with Russia’s President Mr. Vladimir Putin. At the airport, he was welcomed by Rabbi Shalom Lazar, the city’s Chief Rabbi, who blessed him with success on behalf of the country’s entire Jewish population • Full Story, Photos

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett reacted Tuesday to his government’s failure to pass a Knesset motion renewing a law that bars Palestinian family reunification, accusing the opposition of “purposefully and directly” damaging Israel’s security. While the right-wing Likud and Religious Zionism opposition parties support the law in principle, they voted against extending it, along with the ultra-Orthodox parties and the Joint List, in order to embarrass the government • Full Story

“I am eternally grateful to Chabad,” Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett was quoted as saying in an Arutz Sheva article published in February. “Thanks to Chabad of Montreal, my father, of blessed memory, and my mother and all of us became connected to Judaism” • Full Story 

Yamina leader Naftali Bennett surrendered to pressure from the Right to not form a government with Ra’am (United Arab List) head Mansour Abbas on Thursday, telling Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid the idea was off the table • Full Story

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party emerges from exit polls in Israel’s unprecedented fourth general election in two years as the Knesset’s biggest, but the incumbent remains shy of a clear majority • Full Story