Legislator Haim Ramon may abandon his bid for leadership of Israel’s Labor Party. An internal party poll shows that only 17 percent of voters in the party’s Nov. 19 primary support legislator Ramon, while party leader Benjamin Ben-Eliezer has 29 percent support and Haifa Mayor Amram Mitzna stands at 47 percent.
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