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• Eisenkot open to Netanyahu joining Israel’s next government
  Source: Al Jazeera English - News

  Israeli opposition politician Gadi Eisenkot indicated openness to participation by Benjamin Netanyahu in a future government.

• Gadi Eisenkot reaches out to Netanyahu allies as he strives to form government
  Source: The Guardian - World

  Gadi Eisenkot sought support from allies of Benjamin Netanyahu as efforts continued to form a new Israeli government.

• Hundreds of thousands join Amsterdam’s ‘Red Line’ protest against Israel
  Source: Al Jazeera English - News

  Large crowds demonstrated in Amsterdam calling for tighter trade restrictions on Israel and an end to arms sales.

• Jerusalem Daily: Eisenkot picked over Netanyahu to form government
  Source: Al Jazeera English - News

  Israel’s president selected opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot to attempt to form a government following an inconclusive election.

• Israel: Eisenkot officially tasked with forming a government
  Source: Deutsche Welle - English

  President Isaac Herzog formally tasked Gadi Eisenkot with forming a government after the Israeli election produced no clear majority.

• Israel’s president picks Yashar leader Gadi Eisenkot to form government
  Source: The Guardian - World

  Israel’s president asked Gadi Eisenkot to form a government after Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition lost its parliamentary majority.

• Gaza: Rains add misery to humanitarian catastrophe
  Source: Deutsche Welle - English

  Heavy rainfall worsened conditions for displaced people in Gaza, where extensive war damage has left many without secure shelter.

• 'Never Again!': Holocaust remembrance under pressure
  Source: Deutsche Welle - English

  As the number of living Holocaust survivors declines, public debates over remembrance and historical responsibility continue.

• Israel's president tasks opposition leader Eisenkot with forming government
  Source: BBC News - Middle East

  Israeli President Isaac Herzog tasked opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot with forming a government after neither electoral bloc secured a majority.

• Tens of thousands of tents flooded after heavy rains in Gaza
  Source: BBC News - Middle East

  Heavy rain flooded temporary tents housing displaced Palestinians in Gaza, worsening already difficult living conditions.

• Iran war live: Qatar says US, Iran should not wait to reach a peace deal
  Source: Al Jazeera English - News

  Iran war live: Qatar says US, Iran should not wait to reach a peace deal. Qatar's prime minister urges the US and Iran not to wait for a 'perfect moment' to reach a deal to end the war.

• Israel closes Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque to Palestinians for Jewish holiday
  Source: Al Jazeera English - News

  Contested West Bank holy site is reopened exclusively for Israelis, deepening tensions over control of the mosque.

• US midterm results spark fears in Israel over future of two countries' ties
  Source: BBC News - Middle East

  Staunch US support of Israel has been raised as one of the reasons why Republicans performed so badly.

• Israel’s Herzog yet to decide on who should form government as Eisenkot secures significant backing
  Source: The Guardian - World

  President says he will make a decision on Sunday about who should try to build a government as Netanyahu rival is endorsed by 67 lawmakers Gadi Eisenkot, the main rival to Benjamin Netanyahu, secured endorsements on Thursday from a majority of lawmakers to try to form a government but Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, said it was still unclear who could break the deadlock and that he would decide on Sunday which of the two men should try first. Of the Knesset’s 120 elected lawmakers, 67 had ​endorsed Eisenkot through several days of talks with Herzog, while 46 endorsed Netanyahu. Herzog said on Thursday that while the “results ‌of the consultations may appear clear”, there were “mutual vetoes between the blocs and within the blocs themselves” that make it difficult to say who has the ‌best shot to form a government. Continue reading...

• Food grown in illegal West Bank settlements being sold in Australia as ‘produce of Israel’
  Source: The Guardian - World

  Analysis by human rights organisation Global Echo shows 85 of 132 shipments over eight years contained more than US$5m of organic dates grown in settlements Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Millions of dollars of food grown in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank has been shipped to Australia labelled as “produce of Israel”, a new analysis of trade data has shown. The human rights legal organisation Global Echo has analysed commercial documents and official trade data from the Israeli government and the Australian Bureau of Statistics, showing at least US$5m (A$7.2m) of organic dates grown in illegal settlements across the West Bank have been shipped to Australia over the past eight years. Continue reading...

• The midterms were a thumping rebuke of the US-Israel relationship
  Source: The Guardian - World

  Even Trump seems to recognize that the relationship has become a political liability, and may never be the same Q&A: Ask your questions about Democrats’ win in the midterms Track live results from all 50 states On the eve of a midterm election that ended in an unequivocal rejection of his brand of politics, even Donald Trump seemed to recognize that the US-Israel relationship had become a political liability. Trump’s 11th-hour suggestion, on election morning, that he would cut military aid to Israel at the end of the year because, as he put it, “they don’t need it”, was condemned across the board – with pro-Palestinian advocates dismissing it as “desperate” and pro-Israel ones as “unserious”. Continue reading...

• Scepticism as Trump says he’s ending Israel’s $3.8 bn military aid deal
  Source: Al Jazeera English - News
• US to cut nearly $4 billion in Israel military aid, Trump says
  Source: Deutsche Welle - English
• Netanyahu’s eight-seat problem
  Source: Al Jazeera English - News
• Palestinian families return home after Israeli siege of Hebron
  Source: Al Jazeera English - News
• Trump claims US will end military aid to Israel by end of this year
  Source: The Guardian - World
• Trump says US 'won't be paying Israel' by end of year
  Source: BBC News - Middle East
• US strikes Iranian island ahead of midterm elections
  Source: BBC News - Middle East
• Israeli strikes in Gaza kill eight including child, hospitals say
  Source: BBC News - Middle East
• Israel's election deadlock is a sign of the country's deep divisions
  Source: BBC News - Middle East
• Serbian shot dead after attacking officer outside Israeli embassy, minister says
  Source: BBC News - Middle East
• Serbian police shoot dead assailant at Israeli Embassy
  Source: Deutsche Welle - English

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