An Israeli minister from the Shinui Party is expected to resign following revelations that he tried to entrap a colleague in a felony case. Infrastructure Minister Yosef Paritzky apologized Wednesday on Israel’s Channel One Television after the station played a recording of a 2002 phone conversation in which Paritzky discussed having fellow Shinui member Avraham Poraz bribed in order to expose him and end Poraz’s political career.
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