In 2009, Mr Lieberman led Yisrael Beiteinu to third place in the parliamentary elections, displacing the Labour party.
Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party, is one of Israel's most popular and controversial politicians.
By the time they start throwing Jews out of their homes, they won't need Shas or Yisrael Beiteinu anymore.
The controversial law brought in by the far-right Yisrael Beiteinu party was passed by a vote of 37 to 25.
Olmert obfuscates the truth because his political stability rests in the hands of his hawkish coalition partners Yisrael Beiteinu and Shas.
Shas and Yisrael Beiteinu expressed satisfaction with the outcome of the summit.
In October, he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Likud and Yisrael Beiteinu would form an alliance ahead of fresh elections in January 2013.
Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the far-right Yisrael Beiteinu party, says he is opposed to the principle of "land-for-peace", on which the two-state solution is based.
Mr Olmert, however, brought the right-wing nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu party into his coalition last autumn, which shields the government from collapse but also blocks serious pro-peace moves.
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Both Shas leader Eli Yishai and Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman dismissed Annapolis as a pathetic joke and claimed that there is no reason for them to resign from the Olmert government.
He sees that Shas and Yisrael Beiteinu supported Peres's candidacy as president and have joined their fortunes to Olmert's in a bid to block elections which will bring the Right to power.
He then left Likud and founded his own party, Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel Our Home), which became popular among the one million Russian-speaking Jews who came to Israel following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Indeed, Natan Brun argues that the majority of the Knesset (the Israeli parliament) - in the parties of Likud, Kadima and Yisrael Beiteinu - have their roots in Jabotinsky and the groupings which followed.
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