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Sharon fires Shas ministers reports JPost, over their opposition to the budget. This could mean elections are coming, soon. Without Shas, Sharon is dependent on Labor for a Knesset majority. Everyone assumes that if elections were held soon, Likud would get a significantly larger bloc than it has now - at Shas's and Labor's expense. Sharon presumably wants to control the timing of the election, and wouldn't make himself vulnerable unless he were planning to call new elections anyhow. But we'll see.
posted by Noah at 6:51 PM