Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged support for a looming vote on Israel’s 2005 budget. “I ask all members of the faction to vote in favor of the budget,” Netanyahu told members of the ruling Likud Party on Monday in comments directed at lawmakers opposed to the government’s plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank.
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