"You sold your soul to the devil!" fumed Labor party veteran Benjamin Ben-Eliezer (photo below) at newly installed Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz as the Knesset approved a new coalition government by a vote of 71-23. Ben-Eliezer was not alone in his sentiments, and the dramatic Knesset session was marked by bitter rhetoric from a shrunken but notably more energized opposition. Nonetheless, the new government sailed into power relatively easily, with only minor legal issues surrounding possible secret agreements between Mofaz's Kadima party and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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