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Wednesday, 5 October 2011
The cabinet ended a marathon sitting without resolution as Welfare and Social Services Minister Moshe Kahlon and his Likud colleagues Silvan Shalom and Yossi Peled joined Israel Beiteinu, Shas and Atzmaut ministers in opposing the report.
Netanyahu tried lobbying ministers for nine hours before deciding at around 7 p.m. to postpone the vote. Shas leader Eli Yishai told him, “Our opposition is a matter of principle. The weakest sectors have been forgotten on the side of the road. There is no public housing in the proposal. We will continue to oppose this report until its flaws are fixed.”
Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel
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