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(IsraelNN.com) Despite assurances by her boss, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, to the contrary, Foreign Minister Tsipi Livni said in a weekend interview with Channel Two that Jerusalem would indeed be a subject for negotiations with the Palestinian Authority. “All core issues are up for negotiations,” she said in the interview – regardless of what Shas was told or believes.

The Likud reiterated its demand that Shas withdraw from the government, adding that the Olmert government was “dangerous for Israel.”