Ariel Sharon fired one of his deputy ministers. On Tuesday, the Israeli prime minister dismissed Naomi Blumenthal, the deputy infrastructure minister, after she refused to cooperate with an investigation into a vote-buying scandal in the Likud Party’s recent primary elections.
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