To oust Netanyahu, Liberman needs the parties he promised to keep out - analysis

The Jerusalem Post · ZVIKA KLEIN · 2026-11-06 14:07 UTC

Before the election, Yisrael Beytenu's Liberman ruled out forming a coalition with Netanyahu, the Haredi parties, and dependence on Arab parties. He has now relaxed the Haredi veto.

The people I know who debated whether to vote for Avigdor Liberman again kept coming back to the Haredi draft. They wanted ultra-Orthodox Israelis to share the burden of military service. Liberman offered them a right-wing alternative to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with no dependence on Arab parties. Conscription was the issue that persuaded them to vote for him.

On Friday morning, Liberman said forming a government would require compromises across a range of issues, including the draft law. His post on X/Twitter confirmed N12 political correspondent Amit Segal’s report on Thursday that the leader of the secular right-wing Yisrael Beytenu party had lifted his veto on Haredi coalition partners.

“This also includes the draft law,” he wrote. “It hurts me, and I know it hurts many others too.”

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