A senior Israeli Cabinet minister called for expanding the governing coalition. Interior Minister Roni Bar-On, a confidant of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, said Thursday that the specter of a nuclear-armed Iran warranted bringing a broad range of political factions into the government.
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