Former national security adviser says he is breaking with voting habits of almost 50 years to cast ballot for Yisrael Beytenu; laments 'messianic' and 'racist' voices in PM's bloc

Opposition figures pan plan that leaves coalition funds untouched; transportation, education, and health ministries to lose NIS 860 million ($277 million) between them

The Yisrael Beytenu chairman has ruled out a minority coalition dependent on Arab parties. He is banking on Likud defectors, but is actually erecting a roadblock for the center-left