As many as 200 far-right Israelis want to see Prime Minister Ariel Sharon dead, the head of Israel’s Shin Bet service said. “There are between 150 and 200 Jews who actively wish for the death of the prime minister,” Avi Dichter was quoted as telling the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday.
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