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Two other small parties – the leftwing Meretz and Yisrael Beiteinu, led by rightwing foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman – stand on the verge of failing to make the electoral threshold for representation, which could also affect the outcome.

It had been expected that the National Religious Party, which has close ties to the settlers, and the Russian immigrant party, Yisrael B'Aliya, would leave rather than support large-scale withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza.

Mr Barak suggested splitting it between an Yisrael B'Aliyah minister and a Shas deputy minister.

Ms Livni did not mention the less appealing even racist aspects of Yisrael Beitenu's platform.In this section Will the relationship change?

But this may change with the expected return to government of Avigdor Lieberman, the populist leader of a far-right mainly Russian immigrant party, Yisrael Beitenu ("Israel Our Home").On November 6th Mr Lieberman was acquitted by a court in Jerusalem of a series of charges, including fraud and breach of trust.

The pair secretly negotiated a merger of their two parties before the general election in January, forming a united front called Likud Yisrael Beitenu.

His Likud-Beitenu's tally of 31 seats is 11 fewer than the previous combined parliamentary strength of the two parties in his ruling coalition, Likud and Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beitenu, which teamed up on a joint list just before the election.

The commonest, and most controversial, is the idea that Yisrael Beiteinu could join the government; its head, Avigdor Lieberman, has advocated stripping some Palestinian Israelis of their citizenship and transferring the towns they live in to the Palestinian Authority.

But ministers from Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu faction voted for the Jewish Home bill to block future prisoner releases, signaling that Mr. Lieberman, a former foreign minister who is on trial on fraud charges, may challenge Mr. Netanyahu for leadership of Israel's right wing.

Neither is backing down.On the first morning of what threatens to be a long and tortuous post-election haggle, Ms Livni met the ultra-rightist Avigdor Lieberman of Yisrael Beitenu up from 11 seats to 15 and urged him to back her rather than Mr Netanyahu.

It is still a formidable power but has lately been challenged by a feisty new free-sheet, Yisrael Hayom, published by a Jewish-American billionaire, Sheldon Adelson.