Minister Without Portfolio Eitan Cabel (Labor), who has been saying for weeks that he is considering leaving politics, announced his resignation from the Cabinet. He said that the Winograd Commission had found Ehud Olmert personally responsible for the failures of the Second Lebanon War, and "I can no longer sit in a government headed by Ehud Olmert.." Cabel said he hopes his resignation will lead to the resignation of the other ministers in the government. 
 
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After signing coalition agreements with the Labor, Pensioners and Shas parties, Interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (Kadima) notified President Moshe Katzav that he has attained the requisite Knesset majority to form a government. Olmert expects to swear in his new government after submitting the government’s guidelines and coalition agreements to the Knesset for review.