Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition has defeated a vote to dissolve the Israeli parliament and force early elections, buying time to defuse a bitter internal dispute over military conscription of ultra-Orthodox religious students.

Israel's foreign ministry says it has been informed that the United Kingdom will sanction two far-right Israeli ministers and champions of Israeli settlements, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich. Smotrich,

The US has condemned a decision by the British government, alongside Canada, Norway, New Zealand and Australia, to sanction two far-right Israeli cabinet ministers. Foreign Minister David Lammy says Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich will both be banned from entering the UK and will have any assets in the UK frozen over "repeated incitements of violence against Palestinian communities".