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		</div><p>Israel’s defence minister has officially submitted his resignation, leaving the government with the narrowest of parliamentary majorities and paving what looks like a clear path to early elections.</p>
<p>Avigdor Lieberman dispatched a one-sentence letter to prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, informing him of his decision to step down.</p>
<p>The move, which takes effect in 48 hours, leaves Mr Netanyahu with the support of just 61 out of 120 politicians.</p>
<p>With other coalition partners also flexing their muscles and the opposition parties demanding an early election, the days of Mr Netanyahu’s current government seem to be numbered.</p>
<p>Mr Netanyahu was meeting with coalition partners on Thursday.</p>
<p>Two of them, Moshe Kahlon of the centrist Kulanu Party and Arye Deri of the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party, both urged him to call early elections.</p>
<p>Mr Kahlon told the prime minister that holding elections would be the “right thing to do” in the current environment, and that a new, strong and stable government should be formed, his office said.</p>
<p>Mr Lieberman’s abrupt resignation came in protest to a ceasefire reached with Gaza militants that ended two days of intense fighting.</p>
<p>The hardliner had demanded a far harsher Israeli response to the widest wave of Gaza rocket fire against Israel since a 50-day war in 2014, but was overruled by Mr Netanyahu.</p>
<p>In his live TV announcement on Wednesday, Mr Lieberman lashed out at the government’s weakness and termed the ceasefire “surrender to terrorism”.</p>
<p>The move immediately set off furious political jockeying, with insiders predicting it marked the opening salvo of a new political campaign.</p>
<p>Parliamentary elections are scheduled for a year from now but Israeli governments rarely serve out their full terms.</p>
<p>The last time that happened was in 1988.</p>
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