• Published 00:00 19.09.06
  • Latest update 00:00 19.09.06

Sharon bolts Likud, sets up new party

In December, Ariel Sharon, who in the early 1970s first proposed the rightist alliance that became the Likud, led a break-away from the party that included many of its leading officials.

He then founded Kadima, an avowedly centrist party with disengagement as its core platform, which also attracted Shimon Peres and several Labor leaders.

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