Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a vote to dissolve parliament and key coalition partners have threatened to bring down his government.

US President Donald Trump told Prime Minister Benjamin to end the war in Gaza and to remove the option of striking Iran, N12 reported on Tuesday. N12 attributed these quotes to the conversation that took place between Trump and Netanyahu on Monday.

Haredim have said they would support the bill to dissolve Knesset in preliminary vote on Wednesday amid IDF draft exemption disputes

In a coordinated move, Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Norway sanctioned Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich for inciting violence and human rights abuses in the West Bank.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted that his country is supporting an armed group in Gaza that opposes Hamas. Hamas is a banned terrorist group that controls Gaza, which is involved in many terrorist attacks on Israel.

The Australian’s Editor-at-Large Paul Kelly reflects on his trip to Israel during its war with Hamas. Mr Kelly told Sky News host Sharri Markson that the politics in Israel “are bad” at the moment. “They’re imbittered – a lot of this centers around the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The threats coming from the ultra-Orthodox could be posturing, and many expect Netanyahu to pull off a last-minute deal.

In an interview with AFP in Paris, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert launches a scathing attack on current leader Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing him of having failed to protect Israeli citizens during the October 7 Hamas assault and "prioritising personal interests over what may be the national interests of Israel".