Dalia Rabin-Pelossof Party MKs broke away to establish a new faction, New Way. The day after, she was appointed Deputy Minister of Defense in Ariel Sharon's new government. On 26 March the other two New Way members resigned from the Knesset and were replaced by Centre Party MKs, leaving Rabin-Pelossof alone in the faction. On 7 May 2001 she joined One Israel, which later became Labor-Meimad. She resigned from her ministerial post on 1 August 2002. She lost her seat in the 2003 elections. Rabin-Pelossof is married with two children. She is the chairperson of the Yitzhak Rabin Center. Dalia Rabin-Pelossof Dalia
Deputy Prime Minister of Australia accepted the view put to him by McEwen that to commission a Liberal temporarily as Prime Minister would give that person an unfair advantage in the forthcoming party room ballot for the permanent leader. McEwen's appointment was in keeping with the previous occasion when the main non-Labor party was without a leader; Earle Page of the Country Party was interim Prime Minister between 7 and 26 April 1939—the period between Joseph Lyons' sudden death and the United Australia Party naming Robert Menzies his successor. Since 1968 only two Deputy Prime Ministers have gone on to become Prime Minister: Paul Keating