Article: Shalom: Netanyahu won, the Likud lost. Prime minister-designate: He doesn't have to take a portfolio,

GIL HOFFMAN
Jerusalem Post
03-09-2009
Headline: Shalom: Netanyahu won, the Likud lost. Prime minister-designate: He doesn't have to take a portfolio,
Byline: GIL HOFFMAN
Edition; Daily
Section: News
Page: 01

Monday, March 9, 2009 -- Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu is close to finalizing coalition agreements with Israel Beiteinu and Shas, but the party that gives him the most serious trouble might end up being his own Likud.

Netanyahu's strongest Likud rival, MK Silvan Shalom, convened more than 400 Likud activists at his Ramat Gan home Sunday night, in a show of force intended to pressure the party chairman to give him a plum cabinet post.

Shalom sent an olive branch to Netanyahu ...

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