Israel’s justice minister spent his first day in office drawing up a legislative amendment that would permit the Cabinet to be expanded to 24 ministers from the limit of 18 mandated by the nation’s Basic Laws. While doing so at Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s request, Yossi Beilin nonetheless said he thinks it is a mistake to change the Basic Laws, which serve in lieu of a Constitution, for the sole purpose of fulfilling coalition negotiations.
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