Sentence examples for left likud from inspiring English sources

Lieberman left Likud after a falling out with Netanyahu, and in 1999 Lieberman founded a new political party, Yisrael Beiteinu.

Many Likud members opposed Sharon's disengagement policy, and in November 2005 he left Likud to form the centrist party Kadima ("Forward"), taking many Likud moderates with him.

Mr Sharon, the 77-year-old Israeli prime minister, last week left Likud - the party he helped found - in order to form a new centrist grouping.

The only two figures who consistently score high in national opinion polls have both left Likud in recent years, reportedly feeling waylaid by Netanyahu.

They are Uzi Landau, a member of Parliament who is challenging Mr. Netanyahu from within the splintering Likud; Benny Begin, a geologist and ultra-nationalist who left the Likud in disgust, and Mr. Eitan, a former army Chief of Staff and leader of the far-right Tsomet faction.

He left his Likud party and led a centrist breakaway faction called Kadima.

Like many others, Mofaz left the Likud party to join Kadima.

As predicted by many, the centrist Kahlon, who had recently left the Likud, held the balance of power.

He withdrew Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip in August, and then left the Likud party he founded over internal opposition to the plan.

Both Olmert and Livni, 48, also a lawyer by training, left the Likud party last year to join Sharon's Kadima movement -- evidence, political analysts say, that the politicians now in charge are less ideological than those of the past.

Yitzhak Modai, a hard-line minister who is allied with Mr. Sharon, announced that he and four other Likud faction members were forming their own bloc within the party and perhaps even leaving the Likud altogether.