The Shas Party declined to join Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s government. The Sephardi Orthodox party cited its ideological disagreement with Sharon’s plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, and the 2005 austerity budget, as the reason for walking out of coalition talks Thursday with the ruling Likud Party.
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