The Prime Minister has been suspected of bribery, fraud and breach of public trust.
Israel goes to the polls on Tuesday after a snap election called by the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, at the beginning of December.
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/ 4 February 2011
Just after their failure to persuade the Hawks to arrest Israeli politician Tzipi Livni, anti-Israel hardliners are clamouring at the door of the NPA.
Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas and his aides have accused al-Jazeera of lies and distortion for publishing the "Palestine Papers".
The Hawks have turned down a request to obtain an arrest warrant for Israel’s former foreign minister Tzipi Livni as there was not enough evidence.
Amid calls for her arrest, the trip to SA by Israel’s former foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, has been postponed due to a labour strike.
The Hawks on Tuesday deliberated whether there were grounds to issue an arrest warrant for former Israel foreign minister Tzipi Livni, due in SA soon.
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/ 11 January 2011
Tzipi Livni’s Kadima party is to oppose legislation to investigate funding of civil and human rights groups in Israel.
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/ 15 December 2009
Israel on Tuesday slammed an arrest warrant issued by a British court against former foreign minister Tzipi Livni over her role during the Gaza war.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud signed a coalition deal with the ultra-Orthodox Shas party on Monday, bringing the leader closer to forming a government.
Palestinian leaders were urging US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday to push Israel to freeze construction in West Bank settlements.
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/ 27 February 2009
Last-ditch efforts to form a broad-based Israeli coalition failed on Friday, fuelling concerns about prospects for peace with the Palestinians.
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/ 27 February 2009
Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu was making a fresh bid on Friday to persuade Tzipi Livni to bring her centrist Kadima party into an Israeli coalition.
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/ 25 February 2009
Tzipi Livni on Wednesday warned that Israel would launch a military ”operation” in Gaza if the alleged smuggling of arms from Iran continues.
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/ 25 February 2009
Benjamin Netanyahu’s hawkish Likud party launched talks on Wednesday with right-wing parties on forming Israel’s next government.
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/ 25 February 2009
Benjamin Netanyahu, the hawkish leader of Israel’s Likud party, has not given up hope of forging a broad coalition government.
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/ 20 February 2009
Right-wing leader Benjamin Netanyahu will be asked to form the next Israeli government, the office of President Shimon Peres said on Friday.
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/ 19 February 2009
The Israeli president was to hold talks with party officials on Thursday and decide within four days who will be tasked with forming a new government.
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/ 16 February 2009
As Israeli leaders tried to break their deadlock on Sunday, a senior figure in the Kadima party said they would not join a right-wing government.
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/ 13 February 2009
Final results confirmed the Kadima party narrowly won the election but suggested Likud is better placed to form a government.
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/ 11 February 2009
Israel faced on Wednesday what could be weeks of political uncertainty after an election that ended with clashing claims of victory.
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/ 10 February 2009
Israelis began voting on Tuesday in an election that pollsters say is too close to call, with right-wing opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu.
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/ 8 February 2009
Israel votes on Tuesday in the wake of the war in Gaza, with the ballot expected to shift the country to the right.
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/ 3 February 2009
Hawkish frontrunner Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday vowed he would smash Hamas if he becomes Israel’s prime minister after next week’s elections.
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/ 26 January 2009
Front-runner Benjamin Netanyahu has moved quickly to deflect allegations his victory could mean conflict with new US President Barack Obama.
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/ 16 January 2009
Israel worked to secure guarantees on Friday that arms smuggling to Hamas militants would end under any deal to call off its three-week-old offensive.
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/ 12 January 2009
Israeli leaders trying to find a knockout blow for Hamas militants defying a 17-day-old assault on Gaza have thrown army reservists into battle.
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/ 29 December 2008
Israeli air strikes flattened Hamas government buildings in the Gaza Strip and targeted leaders of Gaza’s Islamist groups on Monday.
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/ 25 December 2008
An Israeli air strike killed a Hamas gunman in the Gaza Strip after Palestinian militants fired dozens of rockets and mortars into southern Israel.
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/ 27 November 2008
Israel’s acting Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, on Thursday faced pressure to step down following a decision to indict him in one of several graft cases.
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/ 19 November 2008
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said on Wednesday that Israel had made a final decision not to participate in a UN forum on racism.
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/ 27 October 2008
Israeli President Shimon Peres said on Monday that efforts to form a new government had failed, paving the way for snap elections.