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Dec. 15, 2004 8:29 | Updated Dec. 15, 2004 19:01 PM, Peres try to end coalition crisis By GIL HOFFMAN Prime Minister Ariel Sharon spoke to Labor chairman Shimon Peres on Wednesday evening in an attempt to solve the crisis in coalition talks between Likud and Labor. Senior members of the Likud party fumed over Sharon's offer Tuesday night of the Interior and Communications Ministries portfolios to the Labor party as part of coalition negotiations. In a bid to solve the stalled coalitions talks, Sharon called Peres and offered Labor the Interior Ministry and the Communication portfolio, making it clear...

Nov. 4, 2003 Shinui to formally propose evacuating Netzarim By ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM (1) Two Israeli soldiers comfort each other after the bodies of three of their comrades were taken away at the Netzarim Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip. (2) Justice Minister Tommy Lapid and (3) Interior Minister Avraham Poraz Photo: AP Shinui, the second largest party in the coalition, proposes dismantling a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip and halting targeted killings of Palestinian terrorists to revive peace talks, a spokesman said Tuesday. The proposal by the moderate Shinui party, to be formally presented next week, would be...

Oct. 8, 2003 Rabbinical courts transferred to 'secular' Justice Ministry By HERB KEINON The cabinet voted to dismantle the Religious Affairs Ministry Wednesday and transfer authority over the rabbinical courts to the Justice Ministry headed by Shinui leader Yosef Lapid, a move that infuriated the National Religious Party and triggered a coalition crisis. The NRP, which threatened to leave the government over the issue, wants the Chief Rabbinate and the rabbinical courts to remain united and come under the purview of the Prime Minister's Office, in order to keep them out of Lapid's administrative orbit. The NRP faction decided Wednesday...