Report: Mubarak was offered asylum in Israel

Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, a Labour party member of parliament, told Army Radio that he and Mr Netanyahu, the prime minister, said Mr Mubarak could stay in the Israeli Red Sea resort of Eilat.

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“I met Mubarak in Sharm el-Sheikh and I told him that it was a short distance and that it might be a good chance to heal himself,” Mr Ben-Eliezer said. “I am convinced that the Israel government would have accepted him but he declined the offer because he was a patriot.”

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