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From the Liveblog of
Monday, March 18, 2013
From the Liveblog of
Monday, March 18, 2013
Ministers take oath of office, with plenty of hugging
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEach minister walks to the podium, takes the oath, and returns to handshakes and hugs from colleagues and rivals. Yael German, the first female minister to take the oath today, gets a big bunch of flowers.
Speaker Edelstein is also kissing some ministers on each cheek after they deliver the oath. (Yisrael Katz, Transportation, prefers a handshake.)
The hugs are taking so long that Edelstein asks the MKs to hurry it all along.
The Yesh Atid party MKs are engaged in some heavy group hugging.
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