A senior coalition official: "This is the beginning of the end of our government".

A senior government coalition leader led by the Israeli Likud believes that the current government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is about to disappear, after former Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman got power, leaving Netanyahu has a very slim majority of 61 seats in the 120-member Knesset.

Earlier this month, Liberman and his group of five MPs, Yisrael Beytenu, left the government to protest a ceasefire agreement with the Gaza-based Hamas terrorist group, signed following the signing of a ceasefire agreement. a mbadive barrage of rockets on southern Israel.

While the home party for the Jewish house of the Minister of Education, Naftali Bennett, threatened to join Yisrael Beytenu to leave the government if he was not hired as defense minister, the Jewish Home then withdrew its ultimatum , choosing to stay in the coalition.

Although the government has managed to stay intact and avoid early elections at the moment, it failed in its first major legislative test earlier this week, when it failed to secure a majority for the "law on cultural loyalty", forcing the coalition to abandon a vote. scheduled for Monday of the agenda.

Minister of Culture and Sport Miri Regev lobbied for the Cultural Loyalty Act to allow the minister to withdraw funds from artists or groups who publicly reject Israel as a democratic state and Jewish; mark the day of Israeli independence as a day of mourning; Desecrate or destroy Israeli national symbols such as the flag; or to praise or otherwise express solidarity with terrorism.

The government's inability to pbad the bill was perceived as a major defeat for the coalition and a sign that it would be difficult to pbad tougher laws, including an amendment to the bill.

Wednesday, Israel Hayom reported that a senior coalition official claimed that the government was coming to an end.

"Almost every week, there is a new drama, a crisis, a business," said the manager. "Knesset members are forced to pay their bills. It looks like the beginning of the end. "

"More than anything else, it looks like [Finance Minister Moshe] Kahlon wants to dismantle the government, but does not want to be credited with it. We do not know how long we can continue like this. "

The coalition leader also referred to the pending amendment to the bill, which replaces parts of the bill rescinded by the Supreme Court in 2017. The court had given the government one year to pbad a replacement law regarding suspension projects for yeshiva students.

When it became clear that the government could not pbad the bill in time for the deadline, he asked for a six-month extension of the court but he only had three months.

With the new December 2 deadline approaching, it is unlikely that the coalition will adopt new legislation to protect the proposed schedule of adjournments in time.

"We asked for a [second] extension of the Supreme Court because at the moment we have no solution, "said the coalition leader.

"In simple terms, for now, we do not have a political solution and we are just trying to save time. Even though the Supreme Court is putting pressure on us, we can not really do anything right now. The political situation does not allow us to solve the problem. The haredim are opposed [to the current bill, proposed by Liberman] and will vote against, [opposition MKs] Lapid and Liberman, who, although they said they would vote for the bill, have now kept their promises because they claim that agreements are cut behind their backs. In short, it will not pbad.