Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ruined the Likud Party, his predecessor as party head said over the weekend. “It will take some time for the Likud to rise again and return to what it was,” former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir told Army Radio. Shamir added that he had cast a blank ballot in last week’s election rather than vote for Netanyahu.
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