That leaves two Likud hard-liners — Moshe Yaalon, the minister of strategic affairs, and Benny Begin, a minister without portfolio.
Some Likud hard-liners have proposed legislation that would override the court's decision and legalize Ulpana retroactively.
Mayor Ehud Olmert, a Likud hard-liner, said he was not informed of Mr. Arafat's journey but believed it was appropriate.
In September 1984 Shamir, the Likud hard-liner, and Shimon Peres, head of the Labour Party, formed a makeshift coalition government in which Peres served as prime minister for the first half of a 50-month term and Shamir served as deputy prime minister and foreign minister; the roles were reversed for the second 25 months, and Shamir thus assumed the office of prime minister in October 1986.
But Mr Lieberman plumped for his "natural allies" such as Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud on the hard right.As Mr Netanyahu's foreign minister, Mr Lieberman now plays down his previous acceptance of the two states, which the prime minister balks at.
He entered politics with the hard-right Likud youth movement, served on the City Council and worked under the famous Mayor Teddy Kollek on roads, planning and other municipal matters.
The attack came as members of Israel's dominant party, the hard-right Likud, went to the polls to re-elect their leader, Mr. Sharon.
Ariel Sharon, the hawkish, hard-line Likud leader was, as expected, unable to muster the 61-seat absolute majority in the 120-seat Parliament that was needed to topple the government.
Mr. Landau, a hard-line Likud member of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's cabinet, added, "A civil representative of the Palestinian Authority was operating from the heart of Jerusalem with the aim of putting our sovereignty in question".
However, it would be hard to get Likud to approve this.Mr Sharon's own preference would be to keep things as they are, and continue ruling over parallel coalitions.
And with Mr. Barak in such trouble in the opinion polls -- even Mr. Finkelstein acknowledged that it would have been hard for a Likud candidate to lose this race -- Mr. Sharon kept a relatively low profile, in effect letting Mr. Barak run against himself.
