Israel signed several record multibillion-dollar gas, technology and military deals with its trading partners last year.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is likely to call early elections this spring or summer in order to maximize his chances of forming a new coalition and staying in power, with the explosive issue of the ultra-Orthodox exemption from military service at the center of the debate.

At least two dozen countries have restricted arms sales to Israel over its conduct in Gaza — an embargo that has spread in the past year. By the time the current ceasefire came into force, six countries had banned weapons transfers to Israel altogether.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A growing number of countries on Saturday rejected Israel’s recognition of Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland as an independent nation a day earlier, the first by any country in more than 30 years. It wasn’t known why ...