The leadership of Israel’s Likud Party recommended Wednesday that Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon serve as acting party chairman in place of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who resigned the post after losing Monday’s election. The nomination of Sharon, a veteran hawk, will be voted on at a meeting of the party’s Central Committee on May 27.
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