Two members of the immigrant rights Yisrael Ba’Aliyah Party are breaking away to form a party of their own. Legislators Roman Bronfman and Alexander Tzinker attributed Wednesday’s move to ideological reasons. The party’s leader, Interior Minister Natan Sharansky, denounced the move as a betrayal of those who had voted for the party and called on the two to relinquish their Knesset seats.
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