Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon named a new tourism minister. Benny Elon succeeds Rehavam Ze’evi, his partner in the hawkish National Unity-Israel Our Home faction, who was murdered by Arab terrorists last month in Jerusalem’s Hyatt Hotel.
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