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Nov. 24, 2005 18:47 | Updated Nov. 24, 2005 21:25 Low turnout mars Sharon-less Likud committee event By GIL HOFFMAN The Likud central committee convenes Minister without portfolio Tzahi Hanegbi Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski The first Likud central committee meeting without Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was intended to be a showcase of party unity in the post-Sharon era, but instead it will be remembered for its low turnout. When the event was supposed to start at 5 p.m., the room was nearly empty. It started an hour late and finished shortly thereafter. Organizers said after the event that 911 central committee...

"There are already people who have made the decision that if/when the time comes, they will try to kill a minister, a Prime Minister, an army officer or a policeman." So said Public Security Minister Tzachi HaNegbi last night. The incitement campaign against the right-wing continues. Public Security Minister Tzachi HaNegbi, a sometimes leader himself of right-wing causes in the recent and more distant past, said last night that in his opinion, "there are already people who have made the decision that if/when the time comes, they will try to kill a minister, a Prime Minister, an army officer or...

Continuing a series of surprise appointments, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Wednesday appointed former Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert a Finance Minister and former Environment Affairs Minister Tzahi Hanegbi was given the Internal Security Ministry. The appointments come as Sharon holds individual meetings with Likud MKs to inform them of his appointments. Earlier in the day, Sharon gave Silvan Shalom the Foreign Affairs portfolio, leaving current Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu out in the cold.