Lieberman holds firm: Yisrael Beytenu will not sit with Netanyahu or Ra'am

Avigdor Lieberman reiterated that Yisrael Beytenu will not enter any coalition with Netanyahu's Likud or with Mansour Abbas's Ra'am, committing to 'establish a Zionist government' instead. With Yisrael Beytenu polling around 10 seats in recent surveys, the position makes Lieberman a swing-bloc figure for the 26th Knesset: neither Netanyahu's right-religious camp nor the Zionist opposition can reliably reach 61 if his red lines hold.