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Article: Blumenthal elected World Likud head
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- March 9, 1999
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Liat Collins
Jerusalem Post
03-09-1999
MK Naomi Blumenthal was elected by a large majority last night as head of World Likud. Some 300 World Likud members participated, half of them from the Diaspora and half from Israel. The vote was between Blumenthal and MK Ze'ev Boim. Blumenthal won by 209 to 78 votes.
The previous holder of the position, Zalman Shoval, was chosen as a compromise between the rival Avigdor Lieberman camp and Dan Meridor-Ronni Milo camp in the Likud at the time. The tension focused then on appointments in the Jewish ...