Israeli Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak’s coalition negotiating team met Wednesday with several religious and right-wing parties, including the National Religious Party, the fervently Orthodox United Torah Judaism bloc and the far- right National Unity Party. NRP officials, echoing similar statements from Likud a day earlier, said their party is being courted as a possible coalition partner.
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