Israels swollen cabinet too big for table
The Israel Defence Forces has a cabinet too big for Israeli society - which may be why it faces a public campaign to bring it down.
Maintaining the cabinet's size in a high-pressure political atmosphere is particularly hard because the size of the ministerial positions is not a public function.
They have become a symbol of Israel's success in the Middle East, but in recent weeks have also become a source of controversy over the size of the cabinet.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has suggested the cabinet should be reduced from 7 to 4 members.
But the idea has sparked criticism, particularly when Netanyahu refused to budge for some weeks.
This time there has been some opposition, especially from the far-right National Union party, which has accused Netanyahu of trying to force through the idea.
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More qld searchers go to quake zone
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A woman travelling to Victoria during an earthquake in Australia has been caught up in a series of violent landings around the country as she tried to reach the country's north.
Police in Melbourne arrested a 49-year-old woman after she tried to reach Darwin and Darwin Airport in the capital on Saturday night.
It is not yet known whether she was planning to return to Brisbane or to Darwin on Sunday morning or next weekend.
Officers arrested a 36-year-old man in Townsville about 10 kilometres west of Canberra around 11.20pm on Saturday in connection to the Brisbane-Cairns Airport and St Kilda Airport.
Officers were questioning two other women who were travelling in similar cars to the woman's on Saturday night.
The woman was released on bail.
Topics: quake, disasters-and-accidents, community-and-society, disasters-and-accidents, melbourne-3000, wa
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