Avigdor Liberman

Liberman calls for unity government

Yisrael Beytenu chairman changes post-election strategy in response to coronavirus outbreak.

Liberman's demands of the Likud

Yisrael Beytenu faction sends list of demands to Likud including passage of draft law and civil marriage.

Government forming? Blue and White heads meet with Liberman

Meeting between Gantz, Lapid, Ya'alon, Ashkenazi with Yisrael Beyteinu Chair called very good; Blue and White to meet with Joint Arab List.

Is Liberman positioning himself for a leadership bid?

Is Avigdor Liberman just using Benny Gantz to wipe Netanyahu off the political map?

Gantz and Liberman: 'Good meeting'

Blue and White, Yisrael Beyteinu leaders meet in Ramat Gan, say fourth election would be unacceptable.

Shas vows to oppose minority government

Shas pledged support to PM Netanyahu and promised to oppose minority gov't.

Gantz on Liberman's conditions: 'Agreed'

Blue and White chair responds to Liberman's conditions for joining a coalition. 'We must move forward.'

Liberman posts his conditions for joining a coalition

"Yisrael Beytenu’s threshold conditions for joining the next coalition" include civil marriages and conversions by municipal rabbis.

Liberman reveals reason for rift with Netanyahu

Yisrael Beytenu chairman tells associates: Netanyahu crossed every red line.

Ya'alon and Liberman endanger Israel's security

A government that depends on Tibi and Ayman Odeh would usher the State of Israel to a terrible new era.

Netanyahu to Gantz, Liberman: You can't steal the election

PM slams Blue and White, Yisrael Beytenu leaders for seeking to 'disqualify a candidate after the election.'

Miri Regev to Liberman: 'Whom do you answer to?'

Culture Minister Miri Regev questioned Liberman's motives for supporting a law that would block Netanyahu from forming a gov't.

Liberman supports law blocking Netanyahu

Yisrael Beytenu chair announces support for anti-Netanyahu legislation, signaling he won't enable PM to form government this time, either.

Liberman accuses haredi MK Gafni of 'idolatry'

Yisrael Beytenu head accused MK Gafni and his supporters of "idol-worship," said he didn't represent Jewish values.

Odeh: 'Tremendous achievement'

'I will have nothing to do with Gantz,' Joint Arab List chair says. 'If he wants he can call me.'

'We will not move one millimeter from what we promised voters'

Yisrael Beytenu chairman responds to exit polls: We will wait for the true results. We are a party with principles.

The votes are there for a religious-right-wing government

Liberman: Netanyahu promised not to annex Jordan Valley

MK Liberman claims: PM Netanyahu promised King Abdullah that talk of annexation was 'just for elections.'

Amir Peretz reveals: Government supported by the Joint List

Labor-Gesher-Meretz chairman: We will first swear in a government with Yisrael Beytenu and the Joint List supporting from the outside.

Liberman reveals details of Qatar trip on live TV

Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman violated censorship guidelines when he revealed details of a secret Qatar trip.

Deri: Liberman is leading the public astray

Shas chairman blames Yisrael Beytenu chairman for preventing the establishment of a government.

'I hope Netanyahu steps down'

Yisrael Beytenu chair says he doesn't understand whether Benny Gantz is in favor of annexation or not, hopes PM Netanyahu will step down.

'I'll sit with Meretz, I won't sit with the Joint Arab List'

Yisrael Beytenu chair says he has no problem sitting with left-wing union, adds PM Netanyahu also asked Labor to join government.

Liberman doesn't rule out sitting in gov't with Meretz

"It all depends on the basic guidelines," Yisrael Beytenu chair says, estimating that "a unity government will not be established.”

'Trump will make sure Israel gets a government'

Yisrael Beytenu MK explains what Liberman means when he says he supports the formation of a “liberal Zionist government”.

Liberman demands another debate on disqualifying MK Yazbak

Yisrael Beyteinu Chairman orders petition to Supreme Court demanding to annul judgment legalizing Knesset Member Heba Yazbak run.

'We told Liberman to join a right-wing government'

MK Liberman 'promised to join government focused on the essence' - and the essence is sovereignty, Gush Etzion's Shlomo Ne'eman adds.

Avigdor Liberman:

'After election Bibi won't apply sovereignty to 1 grain of sand'

Yisrael Beyteinu Chairman visits sovereignty tent, tells authority heads: 'We'll support sovereignty in all Judea/Samaria communities.'

'Liberman has closed a deal with Meretz and the Arabs'

Shas chairman Deri says the right way to deal with Avigdor Liberman's attacks is not to respond.

Report: Liberman gave haredim exemptions from army

False medical exemptions were given to haredim, & sons of prominent haredim received easy exemptions, when Liberman was DM, report says.

Shas: Liberman has agreed to a gov't with Joint Arab List

Interior Minister claims Yisrael Beytenu has cut deal with Blue & White for formation of left-wing government after March election.

'Gantz is Mr. Yes-and-No, he hasn't decided yet'

MK Liberman calls on PM Netanyahu, MK Gantz, to worry about problems in Israel instead of 'photo op' trip to Washington.

Liberman attacks the haredim, who fire back

UTJ responds after Yisrael Beytenu chairman says that in the next government, he will ensure that budgets are not transferred to yeshivas.

Liberman: Netanyahu isn't traveling - he's running away

Yisrael Beytenu MKs criticize PM Netanyahu's upcoming Washington trip, say he doesn't want to annex Jordan Valley.

'Not every insult said to a woman is because she's a woman'

Channel 13's Chen Liberman responds to Min. Regev's claim that MK Liberman's insult was 'chauvinistic and misogynistic.'

Haredi MK lambasts 'neighborhood bully' Liberman

MK Yakov slams media for selective criticism of religious sector, blasts MK Liberman for snubbing Likud's Min. Regev.

Israel election sentiments

When Liberman met Regev in the studio

Liberman refused to wish Regev a good week as they met in Channel 13's studio. "I only say 'Shavua Tov' to human beings.'"

'A vote for Liberman is a vote for fourth elections'

UTJ's MK Gafni explains why Israelis shouldn't vote for Liberman - and what that has to do with the government deficit and raising taxes.

Liberman furious at Smotrich: 'Religious coercion'

Yisrael Beytenu chairman livid after Transportation Ministry cancels bus routes that operated on Shabbat.

Liberman promises: No fourth elections

'I'm saying this live: There won't be fourth elections,' Yisrael Beytenu chair says.

'We'll support appointing a Religious Zionist as Chief Rabbi'

MK Liberman says his party wants 'serious reform' on issues of religion and state, will demand new elections for position of Chief Rabbi.

'Israel is our Home':

Liberman calls haredim 'poor and ignorant'

Yisrael Beyteinu head blames haredi MKs for causing haredi 'poverty and ignorance' in absence of mathematics and English studies.

Liberman 'going out of his mind' due to hatred for Netanyahu

'Chief rabbi spoke out of concern for Israel, MK Liberman spends his days trying to unseat PM Netanyahu,' Shas says.

Modi'in mayor: 'We will not run public buses on Shabbat'

Avigdor Liberman accuses Modi'in mayor of turning Modi'in into Modi'in Ilit, a haredi town. Gafni calls Liberman a hypocrite.

Liberman vows to vote down Netanyahu's immunity request

Yisrael Beytenu chief blasts Prime Minister over request for immunity: 'Israel has become a hostage of Netanyahu's personal problems.'

The cost of Avigdor Liberman

MK Gafni: 'Liberman is driven by hatred of Netanyahu & haredim'

'The state of Israel is of less interest to him,' Finance Committee Chair Moshe Gafni releases statement condemning Avigdor Liberman.

Liberman: 'Don't vote for the larger parties'

'If you don't wake up, we'll all pay the price,' Yisrael Beytenu chairman warns.

New Right: Liberman tries to sow conflict and strife

New Right furious after Yisrael Beytenu chairman says he would demand the Religious Affairs Ministry.

Liberman: Cut yeshiva budget by half

At Maariv, Jerusalem Post conference, MK Liberman criticizes haredi site for 'vodka and pigs' comment.

Exposé: Avigdor Liberman's Russian language campaign

Liberman: Deri betrayed me personally, I'll never forgive him

Yisrael Beytenu chief denies he has vendetta against Netanyahu. 'If I did, I could have easily helped form minority government with Gantz.'

Haredi MK: Liberman is the Israeli Corbyn

MK Yisrael Eichler criticizes Yisrael Beytenu chairman over his anti-haredi attitude.

INTO THE FRAY: Israel’s dysfunctional electorate?

Liberman: 'No matter what I do, someone will be unhappy'

MK Liberman says voters from right and left complain about his decisions: 'Someone will always be unhappy with what we do.'

'The two large parties have decided they prefer new elections'

MK Liberman, chair of the Yisrael Beytenu party, says PM Netanyahu, MK Gantz, think they'll come out victorious if new elections are held.

'Liberman is dangerous, cynical, and irresponsible'

Transportation Minister blasts Yisrael Beytenu chief for declaring new elections inevitable. "We'll need to find other path to 61 MKs.'

National Union pushes Rightist unity ahead of new elections

National Union prepares for 2020 elections, will launch campaign to unite religious Zionist parties.

Liberman: We're going to elections

Yisrael Beytenu chairman says he does not intend to join a narrow government, is convinced that a unity government is no longer an option.