A fervently Orthodox group is calling on voters in the Israeli town of Bnei Brak to leave their ballots blank rather than vote for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The group believes that the move will enable leaders of the community, which overwhelmingly supported Netanyahu in the 1996 election, to negotiate a place in the government of Ehud Barak should the Labor Party candidate win the election.
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