Quds city, Jan 18, SPA -- Interim Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert filled out his cabinet on Wednesday, appointing members from his centrist Kadima party to top posts two weeks after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was incapacitated by a stroke. In the most high-profile appointment ahead of a March 28 Israeli election, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, widely seen in Israel as a rising political star, became foreign minister, replacing the Likud's Silvan Shalom, according to a report of Reuters. The appointments, replacing ministers from the right-wing Likud who resigned over the weekend, were a further sign that Israeli politics were returning to business as usual after Sharon's massive stroke on Jan. 4.
