Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will issue a statement at 8 pm in the Knesset regarding the coalition situation and the need for new elections.
The announcement came as the Knesset approved the preliminary reading of a bill to disperse while Netanyahu met with Chairman Avigdor Liberman of the Yisrael Beytenu Party, whose inflexibility on legislation to regulate the drafting of haredi-religious Jews into the Israel Defense Forces has kept Netanyahu from forming a majority coalition.