The National Religious Party’s negotiating team voted unanimously today to reject the Labor Party’s latest compromise proposals on “Who is a Jew” and to inform Labor that there was no possibility of the NRP joining a government headed by Yitzhak Rabin. The Labor Alignment’s Knesset faction and its top decision-making forums were to convene in Tel Aviv this evening to consider the NRP refusal. Observers predicted that Labor would immediately set about forming a government without the religious party.
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