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| | Yossi Sarid, leading parliamentary dove, retiring from Israeli politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | JERUSALEM (AP) - Yossi Sarid, the acid-tongued enemy of Israelis who reject concessions for peace and ultra-Orthodox Jews who try to impose limits on the secular majority, said Thursday he would retire from Israeli politics after 31 years in the parliament. |
 | | Sarid, 65, served as head of the dovish Meretz party, resigning after a stinging electoral defeat in 2003 cut the party's strength. |
 | | The slender, balding, bespectacled Sarid is best known for slouching back in his seat in the parliament, hurling barbed comments toward speakers at the podium, his deep voice reminiscent of an old-time radio announcer, which he was before he entered politics. |
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