Nov 14, 2018

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced on Wednesday (14/11) that he was resigning from the coalition government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in protest over Tuesday’s Gaza truce deal.

Announcing his decision, which takes effect 48 hours after he puts it in writing, Lieberman deemed Tuesday’s Egyptian-mediated deal with the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas “a capitulation to terror”.

But, Lieberman, who has served as Minister of National Infrastructure, Minister of Transportation, Minister of Strategic Affairs, Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Affairs Minister, and Minister of Defense, since entering the Knesset in 1999, has made many headlines in the last twenty years.

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