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Labor edges towards joining Netanyahu government

DEBKAfile Special Report

March 5, 2009, 1:25 PM (GMT+02:00)

Unions leader Ofer Eini wants Labor in government

Unions leader Ofer Eini wants Labor in government

DEBKAfile's political sources report that the Histadrut Trade Unions leader, Ofer Eini, who has emerged as supreme national fixer in the ongoing crises over business closures and layoffs, has thrown his support behind the outgoing defense minister Ehud Barak's bid to join Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud-led government.

This powerful support brings Netanyahu closer to his goal of a broad national government. 
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