Israel’s Labor Party remained divided over whether to join a national unity government, with party centrists pitted against doves who oppose the move. Meanwhile, another possible obstacle to forming a unity government emerged as Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon instructed his Likud negotiators to reject Labor’s request to receive the finance portfolio instead of defense.
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