Netanyahu, of the center-right Likud party, has pointedly refused to endorse a two-state solution.
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In fact, his Likud party is in general about as radical as our Republican Party.
The new defence minister, Moshe Yaalon, a member of Netanyahu's Likud party, opposes any curbs on settlement-building.
In the outgoing parliament, Mr Netanyahu's Likud party, together with the ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beitenu, have 42 seats.
Mr Netanyahu, though sagging in the polls, still retains a tight hold on the Likud party machine.
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This threatens to split not only Mr Sharon's ruling centre-right coalition but also his own Likud party.
Ariel Sharon, the current leader of the Likud party, hopes to unite all the nay-sayers under his banner.
Adelson and Olmert had been friendly since the nineteen-nineties, when Olmert was a member of the hard-line Likud Party.
The Palestinian National Authority has promised to work with the new prime minister, who heads the right-wing Likud party.
Many politicians, past and present, from the conservative Likud party are lifelong fans.
He became Israel's first Iranian-born president and the first from the Likud party.
Netanyahu, of the center-right Likud party, previously refused to endorse a two-state solution.
Netanyahu's Likud party has traditionally aligned with the ultra-Orthodox factions as coalition partners.
Israeli vice-premier and Likud party member Silvan Shalom told the Jerusalem Post that Diskin should not have spoken in public.
Silvan Shalom, Israeli vice premier and Likud party member, told the Jerusalem Post that Diskin should not have spoken in public.
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The first, and perhaps most important, contest of the new election campaign will be the battle for the Likud party's nomination.
Ms Livni's relatively recent parliamentary career began when she was elected to the Knesset in 1999 for the right-wing Likud party.
Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party was forecast to win 27 -- a dramatic jump from its current 12, according to Israeli media.
Barak currently trails hard-line challenger Ariel Sharon, leader of the conservative Likud party, in the polls leading up to the election.
Late Tuesday night, Mr. Netanyahu called Mr. Lapid and urged him to join forces, according to Likud Party minister Limor Livnat.
Some Labor Party legislators, however, blamed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party.
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Israel held elections Tuesday which resulted in a near-tie between Livni's centrist Kadima party and the right-wing Likud party, led by Benjamin Netanyahu.
Limor Livnat is a Likud Party member of the Israeli parliament and served in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet from 1996 to 1999.
The more likely contenders, Tzipi Livni of Kadima and Binyamin Netanyahu, head of the opposition Likud party, have also stayed mum about the scandal.
Mr Sharon went on to become leader of the right-wing Likud Party in opposition after Mr Netanyahu's decisive defeat in the 1999 general election.
One was Vladimir Jabotinsky, whose ideas inspired both the Irgun Zvai Leumi resistance movement in wartime Palestine and the Likud party in present-day Israel.
With Mr Netanyahu's high personal approval ratings, his Likud party is expected to improve on the 27 Knesset seats it took during the last election.
Between 2006 and 2008, he worked as chief of staff for Netanyahu, who, as the leader of the Likud Party, was then in the opposition.
But Kadima received just one more seat than Netanyahu's Likud Party.
He will face Binyamin Netanyahu in a contest for the leadership of the Likud Party on November 28th, and a general election two months later.
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