Labor legislator Weizman Shiri will become Israel’s new deputy defense minister. Shiri was offered the post by Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer after the current deputy defense minister, Dalia Rabin-Pelossof, resigned over what she said was the government’s unwillingness to negotiate with the Palestinians.
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