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Likud begins primary process as coalition collapse triggers Israeli leadership reset

Likud's central committee opened the party's primary process Sunday morning following last week's coalition collapse, beginning the formal contest to determine the party's leadership for the early elections called by the prime minister.

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Netanyahu Calls Early Elections as Coalition Rescue Bid Collapses Over Ceasefire Vote

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced early Israeli elections in a Saturday night address from Jerusalem after a two-week effort to draw the National Unity bloc into a wartime cabinet collapsed over the Islamabad framework and a looming Knesset confidence vote.

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Knesset narrowly endorses Islamabad framework as Gantz bloc bails out Netanyahu

Israel's Knesset endorsed the Islamabad ceasefire framework and its 90-day inspection extension by a vote of 64-56 on Tuesday, with Benny Gantz's National Unity bloc supplying the margin that kept Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government intact on the eve of the Marseille donor conference.

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Netanyahu coalition fractures as two far-right ministers walk out over Islamabad framework

Two far-right ministers quit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet on Monday in protest of the Islamabad ceasefire, leaving the Israeli government with a one-seat Knesset majority and clouding the post-war diplomatic track 12 days into the truce.

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Netanyahu Coalition Fractures as Knesset Opens Probe Into Conduct of Iran War

Two religious-Zionist parties withdrew from Israel's governing coalition Monday, narrowing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's working majority to a single seat as the Knesset voted to open a formal commission of inquiry into the six-week war with Iran.

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Iran Fires Final Volley, Israel Strikes Nuclear Site on Ceasefire Eve

Iran launched a barrage of more than 90 missiles and drones at Israeli targets early Tuesday while Israeli warplanes struck a hardened nuclear facility near Natanz, a final exchange of blows on the eve of a ceasefire set to take effect at midnight Wednesday.

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Islamabad Talks Cross Final Threshold as Israel Signals Acceptance and Ceasefire Text Nears Completion

Mediators in Islamabad said Saturday that the framework principles document had been initialed by Iranian and U.S. delegations and that Israel had signaled it would not block a joint statement, putting a ceasefire announcement within reach as soon as Sunday.

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Israeli Cabinet Greenlights Quiet Engagement as Islamabad Text Narrows Toward a Cessation

Israel's security cabinet authorized indirect engagement with the Islamabad mediation track on Friday, clearing the way for U.S. negotiators to relay Israeli positions on verification as the draft text on a conditional halt to the Iran war moved into final language.

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Netanyahu Signals Conditional Engagement With Islamabad Framework as Mediators Brace for Hardest Week

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaled Thursday that his government would engage 'conditionally and through Washington' with the Islamabad framework, ending an awkward silence and clearing a procedural hurdle that had threatened to stall the mediation.

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Iran Launches Coordinated Strikes on U.S. Bases as Israel Pounds Missile Production and Islamabad Text Hangs Fire

Iranian and allied forces struck five U.S. installations across Iraq and the Gulf in a coordinated overnight assault that killed at least nine American service members, even as Israeli jets again hit missile-production sites and mediators in Islamabad waited for Tehran's written reply.

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Islamabad Mediators Table Framework Principles as Iran Signals Openness to Conditional Pause

Iran's foreign minister told mediators in Islamabad on Tuesday that Tehran could accept a conditional halt to strikes if a phased verification mechanism is agreed, the first explicit movement from the Iranian side since the war began.

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Israel Pounds Iranian Nuclear and Industrial Sites Over Weekend as U.S. Toll Passes 350

Israeli warplanes hit a dozen Iranian nuclear, missile and refinery targets over a 60-hour campaign that ended Monday morning, as the cumulative American military death toll in the five-week war crossed 350.

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Israel Hits Natanz and Parchin in Largest Air Campaign Since War Began as U.S. Toll Nears 330

Israeli warplanes struck the Natanz enrichment complex and the Parchin military site in an overnight wave the IDF called its broadest operation of the war, as the U.S. combat death toll climbed toward 330 with two more attacks on bases in Iraq.

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Israel Launches Broadest Strikes Yet on Iranian Nuclear and Energy Sites in Response to Tel Aviv Barrage

Israeli warplanes and standoff munitions hit at least 27 sites across Iran in a sweeping overnight operation that targeted enrichment infrastructure near Natanz, IRGC command nodes and the Bandar Abbas oil-export terminal, officials in Tel Aviv and Tehran said.

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Iran Fires Largest Missile Barrage of War at Israel as U.S. Death Toll Rises in Iraq

More than 180 Iranian missiles and drones streaked toward Israeli cities overnight in the largest single salvo of the five-week war, even as a fresh strike on a U.S. logistics base in western Iraq pushed American combat deaths past 290.

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