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ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu struggled yesterday to forge a coalition government from disparate parties and keep himself in power.
Mr Netanyahu was in difficult talks with the Jewish Home Party, a leading supporter of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, in hopes of gaining a 61-seat majority in the 120-seat Knesset.
His right-wing Likud party came first in the March 17 elections with 30 seats, but Mr Netanyahu has found it difficult to form a coalition government.
Earlier this week foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman resigned his post and announced that his hardline zionist Yisrael Beiteinu party was withdrawing its support for Likud.
Mr Netanyahu has already made deals with two ultra-orthodox parties, which has alienated his former aide, Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett.
Mr Bennett has been offered the post of education minister, but is also demanding the justice minister job for a party colleague.
