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Minister Eitan: We Will Bring the Nation to Elections (Yeshiva World News)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:35:09 GMT

Minister of Pensioner Affairs Rafi Eitan announced on Tuesday that if the state does indeed make a major cut in senior citizen funding in the 2009 budget, he will make certain that the next step is national elections. Speaking to reporters, the leader of the Pensioner Party stated that knows how to make this occur, stating [...]

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The Rafi Eitan Interview On Pollard (My Right Word)

Tue, 20 May 2008 18:25:00 GMT

Rafi Eitan, currently a Minister in Ehud Olmert's Kadima-led coalition ogvernment, and previously a Mossad agent and ultimate handler of Jonathan Pollard, was interviewed in the Maariv weekend magazine this past week. Below is a scan of most of the section devoted to the question of his involvement and thoughts on the case:- Here are some highlights (the official Pollard site, that is, the

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Olmert requests more funds for ministers (Haaretz.com)

Fri, 02 May 2008 01:59:08 GMT

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wants to increase the budgets allocated to former prime ministers Ariel Sharon, Ehud Barak and Yitzhak Shamir. He also wants to give more money to each of the ministers without portfolio: Ruhama Avraham-Balila (Kadima), Rafi Eitan (Pensioners), Haim Ramon (Kadima) and Ami Ayalon (Labor) for their bureaus. In addition, Religious Affairs Minister Yitzhak Cohen (Shas) will be...

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Eitan's wheeling and dealing keeps Pensioners Party intact (Haaretz.com)

Thu, 01 May 2008 22:02:03 GMT

The chairman of the Pensioners Party, Rafi Eitan, kept his party intact this week, getting MK Elhanan Glazer to serve under him in the Pensioner Affairs Ministry in return for staying in the party. Glazer will serve as deputy minister to Minister Eitan. ...

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Sharoni Breaks Away from Pensioner’s Party (Yeshiva World News)

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:52:27 GMT

It is now official. MK Moshe Sharoni is breaking off from the Pensioner’s Party to launch a new Knesset party, Justice for Pensioners. The party, headed by Minister Rafi Eitan, surprised the nation and themselves, emerging from the national election with seven seats in the current Knesset. Things were running fairly well until a number of [...]

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Israel denies knowledge of imminent Pollard release (Haaretz.com)

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:44:00 GMT

Israel has no knowledge of plans to release Jonathan Pollard from prison in the United States, where he is serving a life sentence for spying on Israel's behalf, political sources familiar with the matter said in response to statements by Pensioner Affairs Minister Rafi Eitan in an interview Monday night with the Knesset television channel. ...

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Power plays delay recovery of Shoah restitution body (Haaretz.com)

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:24:09 GMT

Power struggles between the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and Pensioner Affairs Minister Rafi Eitan, who was appointed by the government to oversee the issue of Holocaust-era property claims, is delaying the revival of the operation of the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO). ...

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