The Knesset Monday night voted 61-56 to approve the Cabinet’s decision to make Ariel Sharon Minister-Without-Portfolio. Dror Zeigerman (Likud -Liberal) abstained, arguing that Sharon should be removed from the Cabinet entirely.
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