Senior officials in Israeli interim Prime Minister Yair Lapid's party, Yesh Atid, have said that Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) will need to compromise on his insistence on not sitting in a government with the haredi parties.
According to the Kan News report, if Liberman wishes to prevent Likud leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu from returning to the position of prime minister, he will need to cooperate with the haredim.
Senior figures in Yisrael Beytenu responded, "Yesh Atid is preparing the ground for a new pact of brotherhood with [MK Moshe] Gafni (United Torah Judaism) and [MK Aryeh] Deri (Shas), and that is their absolute right. We have a clear position, which we do not intend to change."
Liberman has repeatedly said that he will aim for a government without the Likud party, and has insisted that he will not sit with the haredi parties.
"I am committed to doing everything so that a government is formed without Bibi [Netanyahu], without [Aryeh] Deri and without [Moshe] Gafni," he said last week.