Shelly Yacimovich is kicking Labor's coalition habit

Unless the Labor leader backpedals on her promise not to join Netanyahu's cabinet, it will be the first time in over a decade that the party doesn't join the government as a junior member.

By Anshel Pfeffer | 20:20 03.01.13 |

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Perhaps the most astonishing revelation emerging from Shelly Yacimovich's announcement on Thursday - whereby after the elections she will either be prime minister or leader of the opposition, and that under no...

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Shelly Yacimovich is kicking Labor's coalition habit

Unless the Labor leader backpedals on her promise not to join Netanyahu's cabinet, it will be the first time in over a decade that the party doesn't join the government as a junior member.

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