The World - News from July 28, 1986
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The Israeli Cabinet appointed a new justice minister, six days after Prime Minister Shimon Peres forced the resignation of Yitzhak Modai from the post. The appointee is Tourism Minister Avraham Sharir, a member of Modai’s branch of the right-wing Likud Bloc, a Cabinet communique said. Sharir, 54, will continue as tourism minister. Modai stepped down in a compromise after Peres, head of the centrist Labor Alignment, threatened to fire him because Modai opposed an inquiry into the role of Israel’s internal security service in the murders of two captured Palestinian bus hijackers in 1984.
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