Blue and White

Poll: Right strengthens as Blue and White falls to 31 seats

Likud becomes largest party as Blue and White falters in latest poll by Direct Polls.

'Free education from birth'

Blue and White party touts promise of free and quality education from birth to age 18. Will it become mandatory?

Yamina MK: No government without Netanyahu

MK Matan Kahana rules out any option of forming a government with Blue and White.

‘Gantz has been dragged into promoting anti-haredi propaganda’

Haredi MKs slam Blue & White chief over recent interviews, say Gantz's positions prove haredi lawmakers must stick with the right-wing bloc.

Blue and White campaign to target religious Zionism?

TV report says Blue and White formulating a campaign strategy and will target religious Zionism.

The empty box syndrome

Poll: Right-wing bloc wins 56 seats

New poll shows Blue and White winning 35 seats, Likud 33, no side able to form coalition.

'No one is leaving the right-wing bloc'

Deputy Education Minister Meir Porush rejects Blue and White's claims that the right-wing bloc will dismantle after the election.

Ya'alon in Gush Etzion: 'We will not sit with Bibi or with Tibi'

MK Moshe Ya'alon visits Gush Etzion with his colleagues from the Blue and White party.

Blue and White MK not ruling out outside support from Joint List

MK Avi Nissenkorn won't rule possibility that the Joint List would support Gantz government without joining it.

Gantz: Joint List will not be part of my government

Blue and White chairman says the gaps between he and the predominantly Arab party are too deep to bridge.

Arab MKs lay out conditions for joining Blue & White gov't

Joint List chief Ayman Odeh says his party will back formation of Blue and White government - but only if Liberman is not included.

'The residents of the south have been abandoned'

MK Ram Ben Barak blasts government, explains why members of his party walked out of a discussion on the situation in the south.

Shaked: The big parties want us to be small

MK Ayelet Shaked says Likud and Blue and White attack Yamina "so that we do not interfere with the idea of a Palestinian state."

Gesher leader: Blue and White campaign is copycat of ours

Gesher's MK Levi-Abekasis says new Blue and White 'Case 5000' campaign is a copycat of Gesher's campaign from April 2019.

'The Joint List is not our partner'

MK Yoaz Hendel: Anyone who does not believe in a Jewish and democratic Israel will not be our partner in anything.

Netanyahu: Gantz is cute, but he's no leader

Prime Minister says Blue and White chairman cannot truly implement the Deal of the Century.

Blue and White MK hinting at government with Yamina?

MK Yoaz Hendel says Blue and White would form a unity government with Liberman and other "Zionist parties" but doesn't elaborate.

Yamina blasts Lapid: The man and the gel went back to lying

Yamina party fires back after Lapid lashes out at Education Minister Rabbi Rafi Peretz.

Benny Gantz:

'Netanyahu is traveling the world in search of desperate spins'

Blue and White chairman says Netanyahu will be unable to serve the people of Israel once his trial starts after the March 2 election.

Can Gantz be so foolish as to bring the Deal for a Knesset vote now?

Poll: After Trump plan release, Likud surges past Blue & White

Israelis overwhelmingly back Trump's peace plan, new poll shows, with just 16% opposed to it. Israeli Right takes lead over the Left.

Ya'alon:

'Trump plan fits with Israeli national consensus'

Blue and White MK Ya'alon praises content of 'Deal of the Century.' Lapid: 'Anyone who is not extreme Left or Right will understand it.'

Report: Blue & White considering rejecting Trump's invitation

Blue & White reportedly considering turning down President Trump's invitation to Benny Gantz. Gantz expected to announce decision Saturday.

Shaked: 'The public isn't stupid'

MK Ayelet Shaked says Religious Zionists won't give Blue and White even half a Knesset seat/ 'No one will vote for moral bankruptcy.'

Bill for sovereignty in Jordan Valley to be presented next week

Likud seeks to 'test' Blue and White party by pushing bill to apply sovereignty to Jordan Valley before the next elections.

Gantz to tour Northern Dead Sea - will he support sovereignty?

Blue and White chairman to visit Megilot Regional Council with MKs Moshe Ya'alon, Yoaz Hendel, Orna Barbivay and Alon Schuster.

Blue and White to back disqualification of Arab MK

Joint List warns of "implications" if Blue and White supports request to disqualify MK Heba Yazbak over support for terrorism.

Former deputy Shin Bet chief ousted from Blue and White slate

Yitzhak Ilan, former Shin Bet deputy chief, says Gantz's chief of staff told him: "Either move to spot 45 or you will be off the list."

'Religious Zionism agrees with us on most issues'

MK Yoaz Hendel says Blue and White is a home for the national religious public and stresses: "Look at who really represents you."

Blue and White MK to defect to the Likud

Blue and White MK dropped from party list after threatening to join the Likud if he is not pushed up on party's Knesset slate.

'Otzma Yehudit and the Joint List are not partners'

Blue and White MK Zvi Hauser: Jewish Home is illegitimate due to alliance with Otzma Yehudit.

Poll: Blue and White ahead of Likud

Likud 3 seats behind Blue and White under latest poll, but right-wing bloc has slight lead over left-wing bloc and Arab parties.

Blue and White to convene Arrangements Committee

Committee chairman Avi Nissenkorn summons members to begin efforts to establish committee which will vote on Netanyahu's immunity request.

Blue and White working to oust the Speaker of the Knesset

Blue and White intends to try to oust Edelstein if he attempts to prevent discussions on Netanyahu's request for immunity.

'Blue and White won't join other parties'

'We will continue to provide an alternative leadership, decision on PM's immunity request must be made by Thursday,' MK Gantz says.

Blue & White ultimatum to Knesset Speaker on immunity vote?

Knesset committee chief hints at ultimatum for Knesset Speaker 'by the end of the week' if Netanyahu immunity request not put to vote.

Blue and White refuses alliance with 'leftist' parties

MK Zvi Hauser responds to Labor chairman MK Peretz's push to unite bloc: 'Existential difference between Blue & White and leftist parties.'

Peretz calls for unity among all parties on the left

Labor Party chairman proposes: Blue and White, Meretz and Labor should run under one ballot, one ballot for one bloc.

Blue and White's offer to Amir Peretz

Blue and White reportedly made several offers to the Labor Party chairman to persuade him to merge with Meretz.

Blue and White fakes Right, rejects minority gvmt with Arab List

Party leadership decides to emphasize in campaign they will not form government with Joint Arab List to attract Right-leaning voters.

'Tel Aviv mayor avoiding responsibility: This is not leadership'

Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis slams Blue and White party for hypocrisy on democracy, Tel Aviv mayor for ducking blame.

New polls show Blue and White leading the Likud

Three new polls show Blue and White holding steady lead over the Likud. Two polls show united right-wing list struggling to cross threshold.

Blue & White threatens to remove Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein

Knesset's largest party looks to vote out Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein if he blocks vote on Netanyahu's immunity request.

Foreign Minister: 'Blue and White is a pathetic party'

FM Katz says talk of immunity legislation is 'baseless claims,' Blue and White not authorized to decide whether PM is allowed to run.

Report: Blue and White to offer Levy-Abekasis a spot on its list

Blue and White contemplating offering Gesher chairwoman a spot on its slate in exchange for an alliance between Labor and Meretz.

New Right targets Blue & White and Yisrael Beytenu voters

After announcing independent run, New Right sets its sights on 'soft-right' voters who backed Blue & White or Yisrael Beytenu.

Is Livni seeking to join Blue and White?

Israel Hayom report: Livni wants to return to politics and is courting Blue and White: Livni: It isn't true.

Is Benny Gantz a clueless Mr. Clean?

Poll: Draw between Blue and White, Likud continues

Blue and White maintains slight lead over Likud,right-wing bloc retains lead over left, but none can form coalition under latest poll.

Gantz planning changes to Blue and White slate

Gantz reportedly planning to add a woman to top ten and another representative from the Russian community ahead of March election.

Likud with Sa'ar - 26, New Right - 9

A poll shows that if Gideon Sa'ar heads the Likud, the party will weaken but the right-wing bloc as a whole will remain the same.

Gantz: Netanyahu can't turn Knesset into a sanctuary for himself

Blue and White leader calls on PM to defend his innocence in court, not to push for immunity in Knesset legislation.

Blue and White leaders divided over Netanyahu's proposal

Report: Gabi Ashkenazi pushing to examine possibility of unity government with Netanyahu, Yair Lapid vetoing the move.

Gantz: This time I will not agree to a rotation with Lapid

Blue and White chairman reportedly told his associates he does not intend to renew rotation agreement with Yair Lapid.

Poll: 57 seats for center-left, 55 for the right

Channel 12 News poll finds that a third election will again fail to solve the political stalemate.

Gabbay: I regret not entering Netanyahu's government

Former Labor chairman: Gantz needs to make the difficult decision of entering Netanyahu's government.

Likud negotiator: Talks with Blue and White a waste of energy

MK Miki Zohar: Blue and White won't compromise because they believe path to power is getting rid of Netanyahu.

Likud Whip: There will be no unity government

Likud's Knesset Whip Miki Zohar declares talks with Blue & White have reached a dead end, says Likud ending negotiations.

Steinitz: Iran could soon start a war in the Middle East

Energy Minister explains why he thinks Netanyahu should serve as Prime Minister first in any rotation agreement with Blue and White.