Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered Center Party Knesset member Dan Meridor the post of minister without portfolio, responsible for Israel’s top- level security agencies. Meridor has not yet responded to the offer, which would give him responsibility over Israel’s Mossad, Shin Bet and Atomic Energy Commission.
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