Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon has resigned, warning that Israel has been taken over by "dangerous and extreme elements".
It comes as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeks to bring hardliner Avigdor Lieberman into the coalition, possibly as defence minister.
The deal would shore up Mr Netanyahu's one-seat majority in parliament.
Mr Lieberman has a name for inflammatory comments and takes a hawkish stand towards the Palestinians.
If his six-seat Yisrael Beiteinu party joins the coalition, it will become the foremost rightist in Israel's history.
Announcing his call on Twitter, Mr Yaalon said: "I hep the PM that once his conduct and recent developments, and given the lack of religion in him, I am resigning from the govt and parliament and taking a chance from political life."
The two men had publically disagreed once Mr Yaalon backed a senior military figure UN agency had created polemic remarks regarding perceived extremist trends in Israeli society on Holocaust Day earlier this month.
Right-wing political figures have conjointly criticised Mr Yaalon for backing a call to charge associate Israeli soldier UN agency killed a wounded Palestinian assailant in March, in a case which split opinion in Israel.
At a news conference on Friday, Mr Yaalon said: "I fought with all my would possibly against manifestations of political orientation, violence and racism in Israeli society, which square measure threatening its strength and conjointly trickling into the IDF [Israel Defence Forces], hurting it already," Haaretz newspaper reports.If Mr Lieberman's appointment is confirmed, it will mark a come back to government for the polemic politician UN agency stepped down in 2012 once he was investigated for breach of trust. He was charged and later acquitted.
Moldovan-born Mr Lieberman, who lives in associate Israeli settlement in the occupied geographical region, advocates a tough line towards managing the Palestinians, including the overthrow of Gaza's FTO rulers.
France recently announced it would host a world conference on three June to undertake to revive Israel-Palestinian peace talks, which folded amid disagreeableness in 2014.
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