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| Barak 'agrees to Likud coalition' | Barak 'agrees to Likud coalition' |
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| Israel's Labour leader Ehud Barak has reached an provisional deal with PM-designate Benjamin Netanyahu on forming a coalition, Israeli army radio says. | |
| The centre-left Labour party is divided over whether to join a government with Mr Netanyahu's Likud and will vote on the agreement shortly. | The centre-left Labour party is divided over whether to join a government with Mr Netanyahu's Likud and will vote on the agreement shortly. |
| The right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu and Orthodox Jewish Shas parties have already agreed to join a coalition. | The right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu and Orthodox Jewish Shas parties have already agreed to join a coalition. |
| The moderate Kadima party has so far refused to join. | The moderate Kadima party has so far refused to join. |
| Mr Netanyahu has a deadline of 3 April to build his coalition government. | Mr Netanyahu has a deadline of 3 April to build his coalition government. |
| Mr Barak is defence minister in the current government and would retain the post in the next government, Israeli army radio reported. | |
| The draft agreement would also commit a Netanyahu government to continuing negotiations with the Palestinians and to respecting previous deals made with them. | |
| With Labour's support, Mr Netanyahu would have 66 seats in the 120-member Knesset, or parliament. | |
| The Labour party, including its 13 Knesset members, is divided over whether to join a Netanyahu coalition. | |
| Mr Netanyahu has previously refused to sign up to the two-state formula which has underpinned more than 15 years of Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts. |