It will be specifically Habayit Hayehudi that will vote against a nationalist government?

  -- Minister Zeev Elkin

who will blink first? It remains to be seen. It seems ironic that an attempt to expand the government from a narrow coalition might be the cause of bringing it down and ushering in new elections. Netanyahu might actually use this crisis to call new elections in order to avert the formation of a party that polls say could very well threaten Likud rule. If he fires Habayit Hayehudi ministers and calls new elections now, Gideon Saar, Moshe Yaalon and other unnamed disgruntled Likudniks won't have time to form the theoretical party that is being discussed and compete in elections.