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\"I hear the voices of the residents of the south,\" Netanyahu said, speaking Wednesday at a memorial service for the nation’s founding father, David Ben Gurion. \"Believe me, they are precious to me, their words penetrate my heart.\"

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attended the State Memorial Ceremony for David Ben Gurion at Sde Boker.https://t.co/JCi678QL6A pic.twitter.com/GypbAT8YuS

— PM of Israel (@IsraeliPM) November 14, 2018

\"In normal times, a leader must be attentive to the hearts of the people, and our people are wise. But in times of crisis, when making critical decisions in the field of security, the public cannot always be a partner in the crucial considerations that must be concealed from the enemy,\" he said.

\"Our enemies have pleaded for a cease-fire, and they know very well why,\" Netanyahu added, using the world “cease-fire” for the first time since Sunday. After a marathon 7-hour cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Israeli government officials didn’t use the word, saying instead there would be calm unless action “was required.”

But hours later, Netanyahu lost his hard right defense minister.

“I am here to announce my resignation as the Defense Minister for the State of Israel,\" Lieberman said at a press conference on Wednesday morning.

“It’s no secret that there were differences between Netanyahu and me,\" he said, calling the cease-fire a \"surrender to terror\" and denying he ever supported it.

“I could not continue in my position. I can’t look in the eyes of residents in the south and families of the kidnapped soldiers.\"

Lieberman added that he also disagreed with the decision by Netanyahu's government to allow Qatari cash and fuel to enter Gaza last weekend, which was used to pay civil servant salaries and provide much-needed electricity. Over the weekend, some Gaza neighborhoods enjoyed 8 hours of electricity, a massive triumph for many people. Lieberman also called for early elections.

Lieberman will return to the Knesset as a member, but his party, Yisrael Beiteinu, is no longer part of Netanyahu's governing coalition, leaving the prime minister with a razor thin majority of just 61 votes.

While Netanyahu's party, Likud, said he can handle taking on the responsibilities of defense minister as well, officials from Education Minister Naftali Bennett's party, Beit Hayehudi, have told Israeli press that unless he is given the defense minister, he will pull his party out of the coalition. Without Beit Hayehudi, Netanyahu's fourth government will collapse.

So while the cease-fire holds with Gaza, Netanyahu's government may not last the night.

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