Avigdor Liberman: The man who brought Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu to his knees | Explained News, The Indian Express

Avigdor Liberman: The man who brought Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu to his knees | Explained News, The Indian Express

By Bloomberg |Updated: May 31, 2019 12:14:35 pm

Avigdor Liberman: The man who brought Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu to his knees

Liberman is a veteran of Netanyahu’s Likud party who bolted to form Yisrael Beitenu in 1999, and the two have had a turbulent history of breakups and reconciliations.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu converses with former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman during a Likud-Yisrael Beitenu campaign rally in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod January 16, 2013. (Reuters File Photo: Amir Cohen)

He’s been one of the most polarizing figures in Israeli politics, a hawkish West Bank settler who once told an Egyptian president to “go to hell” and wanted Arab citizens to sign loyalty oaths.