Word: barak
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Nevertheless, with the election due on Feb. 10, voters do not find any of the main candidates for prime minister particularly inspiring. There are two failed ex-premiers - Netanyahu and Labor's Ehud Barak - and a terse and untested politician, Tzipi Livni, 50, the current foreign minister and leader of the centrist Kadima party. If elected, she would be the second woman to lead Israel as prime minister...
...drawn so that more than 100,000 Israeli Arabs, against their will, would become part of a future Palestinian state. Lieberman's Yisrael Beitenu party is expected to garner 18 to 19 seats, bumping the venerable old Labor party, headed by ex-premier and current defense minister Ehud Barak, 66, into fourth place. As for the rest of the 120-seat Knesset, according to the latest polls, Likud is expected to win 25 to 27 seats there; Kadima 23 to 25 seats...
...parliamentary elections on Feb. 10, opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu (above, center) is widely considered the favorite to become Israel's next Prime Minister. Most polls put Netanyahu's right-wing Likud Party ahead of Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's ruling Kadima Party and Defense Minister Ehud Barak's Labor Party, by several seats. Following the war in Gaza, national security has become the campaign's central issue, and Netanyahu has accused his rivals of prematurely ending the offensive against Hamas...
...newspaper said Defense Minister Ehud Barak blocked publication of the data, arguing it could endanger state security or harm Israel's foreign relations. But the leaked report will make it easier for Mitchell to renew his eight-year old argument that the growth of illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank is an obstacle to the elusive peace between Israelis and Palestinians...
...Many political analysts are predicting that a victorious Netanyahu could widen his base by forming a coalition with opponents closer to the center of the political spectrum, rather than aligning with parties even further to the right. That option could even see him offer Barak the job of defense minister again. The country's most decorated soldier, Barak allowed himself to be photographed often during the Gaza campaign in a black leather bomber jacket, poring over battle maps with his generals. This tough guy image sits well with Israelis, even if they were displeased that the Gaza war ended without...