Likud officials are already pressuring PM Netanyahu to reserve Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked a top spot on the party's next Knesset ticket. Shaked and Education Minister Naftali Bennett, former New Right running mates, meet in Tel Aviv to discuss next moves.

In about-face, Blue and White party's Yair Lapid says Benny Gantz "will be our candidate for prime minister." Sources in party, however, have not ruled out possibility Gabi Ashkenazi will lead the party in coming election.

Tunnel, discovered in January, is some 2,500 feet long and some 22 stories below ground. It features, plumbing, air conditioning, electricity and a PA system. The IDF plans to fill it in with concrete rather than blowing it up.

This embarrassing situation has nothing to do with immunity or the laws of the land. What caused and sustained this crisis was Lieberman's treachery on one hand, and Netanyahu's inability on the other to identify and neutralize it in time.

The law allows for the possibility of dissolving a Knesset before a coalition is formed but it has never happened in the history of the state.