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GIL HOFFMAN
Jerusalem Post
02-05-2007
Headline: Bar-On removes himself from consideration for justice minister
Byline: GIL HOFFMAN
Edition; Daily
Section: News
Page: 01

Monday, February 5, 2007 -- Interior Minister Roni Bar-On withdrew himself from consideration for the vacant Justice portfolio on Sunday in a conversation with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

Sources close to Bar-On said the decision was not made out of fear of a probe against him, as there has been against previous justice ministers.

They said Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz had said there was no problem with Bar-On receiving the post after he was cleared of charges in the 1997 Bar-On/Hebron scandal.

At the time, then-prime ...

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