Labor Party leader Benjamin Ben-Eliezer blamed Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for the government’s fall. At a news conference Tuesday at party headquarters in Tel Aviv, Ben-Eliezer accused Sharon of having “contempt for the poor.”
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