An Israeli Cabinet minister called for costly security measures around former Prime Minister Ehud Barak to be curbed. Interior Minister Avraham Poraz said Wednesday he would table legislation limiting state-funded security to former premiers to only two years, after which they would have to pay the cost themselves.
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