Sharon Invites Labor Party Into Coalition
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon speaks to reporters after casting his ballot at the Likud party meeting in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2004.
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JERUSALEM - Israel&#39;s opposition Labour Party has agreed to join a coalition with Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud Party, a move seen as safeguarding the prime minister&#39;s vow to withdraw from Gaza.
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Israel's opposition Labour party authorises its leader to begin talks on joining a national unity government.
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Israeli PM Ariel Sharon's Likud party is to  vote on whether to invite the opposition Labour Party into the coalition.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  said Thursday he would seek a governing coalition with Shimon  Peres's Labor Party and pledged to press ahead with a planned  Gaza pullout.
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Coalition negotiating teams of the Likud and Labor Parties agreed today that Peres will become Israel&#39;s first-ever &quot;Associate Prime Minister&quot; and the senior minister in the government after the Prime Minister.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has approached the opposition Labour Party with a tentative offer to join his shaky coalition, in hopes of avoiding early elections and saving his Gaza withdrawal plan.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says he will seek a governing coalition with Shimon Peres&#39;s Labour Party and pledged to press ahead with a planned Gaza pullout.
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Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will seek support from his Likud Party today for his proposal to bring the Labor Party into the government and strengthen backing for his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
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JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon stepped up efforts on Friday to overcome resistance in the ranks of his right-wing Likud party to an enlarged government coalition with the centre-left Labour, ahead of a decisive party meeting.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's  Likud party voted on Thursday in favor of his bid to bring the  opposition Labour party into government, said Army Radio citing  an initial ballot count.
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JERUSALEM - Israel&#39;s prime minister stepped up efforts yesterday to overcome resistance within his right-wing Likud party to include Labour in an enlarged government coalition, ahead of a decisive party meeting next week.
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Israel's opposition Labour party has  clinched a deal with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Likud party  to join his coalition, a move that could push forward his Gaza  pullout plan, Israeli media reported on Friday.
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WHAT HAPPENED: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud Party approves inviting the dovish Labor Party into a coalition government.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  marshalled support for Thursday's Likud party vote to bring the  Labor Party into a government that would block snap elections  and pave the way for a Gaza withdrawal next year.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  said Thursday he would seek a coalition with Shimon Peres's  Labor Party and pledged to press ahead with a planned Gaza  pullout.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud party has agreed to a possible alliance with the opposition Labour group. The vote averts a snap election and strengthens Mr Sharon&#39;s controversial Gaza withdrawal plan.