MK Yuri Stern, who is currently serving as head of the National Union-Yisrael Beiteinu faction in the Knesset, estimates that if the government in fact agrees to leave those areas in the coming days, the chances are high that the party will resign from the government. \"Such a withdrawal would be a violation of the promise Prime Minister Sharon made when he told us that the assassination of Gandhi had changed the picture and that Israel would no longer act as it had before,\" Stern said today. The faction will convene again this coming Friday. The party\'s new MK, Uri Ariel, will be sworn in next Monday. Ariel, who replaces the assassinated Moledet party leader Rehavam Ze\'evi, is a leader of Gush Emunim and the Yesha Council. His four-year term as mayor of Beit El was scheduled to end next month in any event.