A leader of Israel’s opposition Likud Party denounced Prime Minister Ehud Barak for portraying the potential division of Jerusalem as the “expansion and strengthening” of the Holy City. In a speech in New York before the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Limor Livnat also called for new elections and a government of national unity.
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