1.   Among the speakers was Benny Elon, one of the two Cabinet ministers who quit the government.

2.   But many rank-and-file Greens were bitterly opposed and wanted to force the Green leadership into quitting the government.

3.   He said he had contemplated quitting the government altogether, but pulled back after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement condemning the attacks in the press.

4.   He need not quit a government that has ceased to exist.

5.   He was forced to quit the government.

6.   His ruling coalition had already lost its parliamentary majority before he left for Washington when two ultra-Orthodox parties quit the government in disagreement over the peace process.

7.   His centrist coalition partners, the Free Democrats, threatened to quit the government if Medgyessy did not tell the truth about his past.

8.   It is a reasonable assumption that many of the Russian immigrants and Sephardic Jews whose party leaders quit the government this week would themselves welcome a realistic peace agreement.

9.   Levy served as housing minister under Barak until his party quit the government last summer in protest against expected concessions to the Palestinians.

10.   One far-right faction has threatened to quit the government.