JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli lawmaker quit the government’s wafer-thin ruling coalition Wednesday after infighting over bread in hospitals on the Jewish holiday of Passover, throwing the fragile ...

THE first and second parts of this column series portrayed an aberrant Senate, their expedient political party memberships, and a cursory depiction of an anomalous political architecture of governance ...

Last Wednesday I was having lunch with a Swedish member of parliament in the parliament’s cafeteria. Next to us, leading members of four center-right parties, two of whom support the ruling Social ...

Jerusalem — Israel's parliament has narrowly voted in favor of a new coalition government, ending Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's historic 12-year rule. Naftali Bennett, a former ally of Netanyahu ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Although parliamentary systems can thus seem less stable than presidential ones, they are held together by the fact that their heads of state provide an element of ...