The resignation of Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, which comes in the wake of a decision yesterday by Israel’s attorney general to indict Lieberman on corruption charges, has analysts and pundits scrambling to reevaluate electoral scenarios as Israelis prepare to go to the polls on January 22. Lieberman has been a critical political ally of incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu party is running on a joint slate with the Netanyahu’s Likud party in the upcoming election. The corruption charges which will be filed against Lieberman are relatively minor compared to the full slate of charges that Israel’s attorney general had reportedly been considering, and Lieberman had claimed that he wasn’t required by law to resign. The quick move to do so anyway is likely to minimize political fallout from the controversy, and the consensus of polling – which shows the Likud party winning a plurality of seats in Israel’s Knesset – is likely to remain unchanged.