Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s appointment of Yuli Tamir as absorption minister pleased women’s rights groups but angered members of his own party. Senior Labor Party members, who have complained before that Barak passed them over for Cabinet appointments, said Thursday that Tamir had failed to place high enough in the party’s primaries to secure a Knesset seat. Veteran Labor legislator Yael Dayan, who had sought a Cabinet seat, said she now joined a long list of senior party officials Barak had ignored when making his government appointments.
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