Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu has less than 48 hours remaining to put together a coalition government. If Netanyahu fails to come up with a slate of partners by Wednesday at 8 pm, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin will be required by Israel’s Basic Law to task another member of Knesset with doing so. If successful, that coalition builder would replace Bibi as Israel’s Prime Minister.

As of Tuesday morning, Netanyahu had signed a coalition agreement with Shas, an ultra-orthodox religious party.The religious-nationalist Jewish Home party, led by Naftali Bennett and representing parts of Israel’s settler community, appeared to be holding out for the Foreign Ministry, despite an offer from Netanyahu that would give the party control over the Education, Diaspora, Agriculture, and Culture and Sports ministries.

The offer also gave the party control of the Settlement Division, which is responsible for planning and building settlements in the West Bank, as well as a deputy defense minister position that would head the IDF’s civil administration, which runs the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank.

It is unclear how long Bennett will hold out for a better deal, since the collapse of coalition negotiations could pave the way for the left-leaning Labor Party, led by Isaac Herzog, to form a government coalition. But even if Netanyahu manages to get Jewish Home on board, he will preside over a unstable and razor-thin coalition of only 61 seats in the Knesset, out of 120.

“Future Education Minister Naftali Bennett is likely to advance his own ultra-Orthodox perceptions of Jewish heritage at the expense of democratic values and pluralism in Judaism,” writes Akiva Eldar.

Breaking the Silence, a left-wing Israeli NGO that works with Israeli soldiers, has released a report based on interviews with more than 60 veterans of the 2014 Gaza conflict, in which Israeli forces invaded the Palestinian territory to fight militant groups such as Hamas.

“Resistance to Israel’s assaults on the Gaza Strip may have paved the way for Gazan sovereignty,” writes Geoffrey Aronson.

A bomb blast targeted Hamas’s security headquarters in Gaza City on Monday, witnesses said, after radical Islamists issued a threatening message calling for the release of prisoners.

“Hamas representatives have downplayed reports and said that the movement’s leaders are on the same page,” writes Adnan Abu Amer.

A Vice News reporter visits the city of Hebron in the West Bank.

A study finds that lenient sentences become more likely and harsh sentences less likely when an Arab defendant in Israel faces an ethnically mixed panel of judges.

A journalist learns that if you photograph Border Policemen committing a felony, you’ll probably end up paying for it.

“The PA’s crackdown on West Bank refugee camps and withholding of aid is adding to the marginalization of the youth,” writes Aziza Nofal.