Benjamin Netanyahu’s Tuesday deadline to form a coalition government after Israel’s latest indecisive election has been missed, meaning the leader of the second-largest party will now be given the opportunity to find a way of kicking him out. The blow to Bibi’s hopes of clinging on to power came from the country’s president, who has now invited Yair Lapid, leader of the second-largest Yesh Atid party, to form a coalition – despite having won just 17 of the parliament’s 120 seats. Netanyahu has been in office since 2009, his rival now has 28 days to eject him from power…

At his third attempt to form a government, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared in the early hours of this morning a “gigantic victory” for his Likud party in Monday’s election, even as exit polls suggest he could yet struggle to form a majority coalition. He is currently one seat short…