Word: meridor
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...trust charges. Admitting he made a mistake in appointing the manifestly unqualified Roni Bar-On as Attorney General, Netanyahu moved quickly to consolidate his governing coalition, announcing that he will set up a committee to oversee future high-level appointments. The panel will be led by Finance Minister Dan Meridor and Trade Minister Natan Sharansky, two Cabinet members who reportedly had considered resigning over the scandal. The move should help Netanyahu preserve his fragile six-seat hold on power in the Knesset. Two centrist parties, the Third Way and Sharansky's Israel Be'Aliya, said Monday that they would remain...
...trust charges. Admitting he made a mistake in appointing the manifestly unqualified Roni Bar-On as Attorney General, Netanyahu moved quickly to consolidate his governing coalition, announcing that he will set up a committee to oversee future high-level appointments. The panel will be led by Finance Minister Dan Meridor and Trade Minister Natan Sharansky, two Cabinet members who reportedly had considered resigning over the scandal. The move should help Netanyahu preserve his fragile six-seat hold on power in the Knesset. Two centrist parties, the Third Way and Sharansky's Israel Be'Aliya, said Monday that they would remain...
...didn't quite work out that way. The new Prime Minister initially snubbed Dan Meridor, a Likud veteran who was the preferred choice of a dump-Netanyahu movement within the party last fall. Under pressure from key Likud members, Netanyahu named Meridor as Finance Minister. Netanyahu also tried to humble Ariel Sharon, the hawkish and outspoken former Defense Minister, offering him the housing ministry. Sharon, expecting something grander, declined. The party closed ranks behind Sharon, and Netanyahu offered him a new and powerful infrastructure ministry. By the end of last week, Sharon was still sulking and hadn't given...
...Justice Minister. The new Defense Minister is Yitzhak Mordechai, a retired general and newcomer to government with no known political views, who cleaved to Netanyahu throughout the campaign. Overall, the Cabinet includes both hard-liners, such as Agricultural Minister Rafael Eitan, a former chief of staff, and moderates, including Meridor and Foreign Minister David Levy, who returns to the post he held from 1988 to 1992 in the last Likud government...
...first stage, when the rules of the game are established," said Justice Minister Dan Meridor, a close adviser to Shamir. "Establishing the rules of the game is very important to us, because the balance of power is not so much in our favor...