Ehud Barak
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Hizbullah losing friends but gaining influence in crisis-hit Lebanon
- Middle East
- August 26, 2020, 14:54
Lebanon’s efforts to form a new government following the massive blast that devastated Beirut are deadlocked at a time the discredited political elite(...)

Stakes high for Netanyahu as Israel goes to polls
- Middle East
- September 16, 2019, 17:57
Earlier this year, Binyamin Netanyahu became Israel’s longest-serving prime minister. On Tuesday, he seeks to win a fifth term in office in what promi(...)

Barak announces left-wing alliance in bid to end Netanyahu’s rule
- Middle East
- July 25, 2019, 20:18
In a dramatic reshuffle on the Israeli left, former prime minister Ehud Barak has decided to run on a joint list with the Meretz party in the Septembe(...)

What legacy does Netanyahu leave as Israel’s longest-serving PM?
- Middle East
- July 19, 2019, 20:00
On Saturday, Binyamin Netanyahu will become Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, breaking the record set by Israel’s first prime minister, David B(...)

Jeffrey Epstein: the sex offender hiding in plain sight
- US
- July 13, 2019, 14:00
Jeffrey Epstein liked to stack the meetings at his 71st Street townhouse – one of Manhattan’s largest private homes – so that a visitor might encounte(...)

Ex-Israeli PM introduced Weinstein to agents who ‘suppressed abuse allegations’
- World
- November 8, 2017, 18:09
The former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak has said he introduced the disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein to Black Cube, a Tel Aviv-based (...)

All eyes now on Tehran after Trump’s fiery speech on nuclear deal
- US
- October 13, 2017
He denounced it as the “worst deal ever” during last year’s presidential election campaign and dismissed it as an “embarrassment” to the United States(...)

Israel’s peace movement: ‘Only soldiers see the occupation’
- Middle East
- June 21, 2017, 01:00
Israel’s peace camp is a slender shadow of the muscular movement that rose in the early 1980s and celebrated the 1993 Oslo accords, expected, at the t(...)

Is the Israeli-Palestinian two-state solution still on the table?
- Middle East
- June 5, 2017, 13:15
Palestinians, Israelis and the international community still cling to the two-state solution, the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, as(...)

Israeli politician who sought accord with Palestinians
- People
- December 12, 2015, 09:52
Yossi Sarid, who has died aged 75, was an Israeli commentator and former cabinet minister who was the most articulate Israeli advocate of accommodatio(...)