Liberman says no deal with Netanyahu: 'We will not sit in a halachic government'

Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avidgor Liberman says there is no way his party will join a Netanyahu-led government, saying that during negotiations “we made clear that we have no intention of compromising our values.”

“We will not be partners in a halachic government,” he says at a press conference ahead of a plenum vote to dissolve the Knesset.

He says his secularist Yisrael Beytenu party will vote in favor of a Likud-drafted bill to dissolve the Knesset later today.

Liberman accuses Likud of spreading lies about the negotiations in a bid to make it appear that his opposition to the coalition agreement was a personal vendetta.

“We were very practical and very clear, but Likud is trying to create a narrative of a personal vendetta using their propaganda machine.”