Netanyahu striving to save his gov from collapse

Israeli ruling Likud party reportedly intends to reach out to Yisrael Beytenu to try to convince it to join the coalition, a source in the party said on Thursday night.

The move comes due to the fact that talks with the Zionist Union on forming a unity government have stalled due to significant gaps between the sides, the source said, according to Israeli Channel 2 News.

Netanyahu is expected to call on Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman to "break away from the opposition," according to the source.

The Likud maintains that the need to contact other parties to join the coalition is due to the fact that Liberman took votes from rightist voters and then entered the opposition.

Earlier on Thursday, Zionist Union chairman Yitzhak Herzog issued his list of terms for joining the Likud-led coalition.