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Exhausting all possibilities to form a coalition Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called Blue and White’s Benny Gantz, Labor’s Merav Michaeli, and Meretz leader Nitzan Horovitz, Channel 12 news reports. On Wednesday, Netanyahu called Mansour Abbas, chairman of Islamist party Ra’am, for the first time since the March election in a bid to get him to support direct elections, a proposal the incumbent prime minister has thrown his weight behind as his other attempts at forming a government after last month’s elections have so far fallen flat. In his conversations with left-wing part...

Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US correspondent based in New York Illustrative: A picture taken from the outskirts of the West Bank city of Nablus shows a view of the illegal outpost of Havat Gilad on February 2, 2018. (AFP Photo/Jaafar Ashtiyeh) The chairman of the Jewish National Fund decided to delay a controversial Thursday vote that would allow the agency to purchase land in the West Bank, amid growing pushback from members and supporters abroad. The decision, which was first reported by the Walla news site, followed a letter sent earlier this month to KKL-JNF chairman Avi Duvdevan...

Board to vote on controversial policy change next week; in February, KKL-JNF allocated $11.58 million for purchase of West Bank land

1 shares Illustrative: A picture taken from the outskirts of the West Bank city of Nablus shows a view of the illegal outpost of Havat Gilad on February 2, 2018. (AFP Photo/Jaafar Ashtiyeh) The Jewish National Fund’s board of directors is expected to approve the purchase of land in the West Bank on Sunday, including in areas with isolated settlements, the Haaretz daily reported. In February, the Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) voted to allocate NIS 38 million ($11.58 million) for the purchase of land in the West Bank. The controversial vote indicated a policy change — KKL-JNF would t...