Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked a fellow Cabinet minister to begin researching high-tech ways to hold a referendum on a further Israeli redeployment from the West Bank. The investigation by Communications Minister Limor Livnat is reportedly aimed at finding a way in which Israelis could vote by telephone or by mail. Palestinian Authority officials have criticized a possible referendum on the redeployment as a delaying tactic.
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