Israel’s ‘Fired’ Defense Chief Hangs on as Netanyahu Hits Pause

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By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) -The Israeli defense chief whose dismissal by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brought the country’s constitutional crisis to a boil is staying in office until further notice, aides said on Tuesday, suggesting government indecision on how to proceed. Beset by three months of unprecedented protests against his nationalist-religious coalition’s signature plan to overhaul the judiciary, Netanyahu on Monday hit the pause button and called for compromise negotiations with the center-left opposition. “Our goal is to reach agreements,” he said in a pre-Passover to…

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