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Today, Israelis will go to the ballot box to elect a new prime minister. There are now only two contenders for the premiership: Likud leader and incumbent Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu and Labor Party Chief Ehud Barak. Three other candidates, Centrist Yitzchak Mordechai, Israeli-Arab leader Azmi Bishara and hawk Zeev "Benny" Begin bowed out of the race in the 11th hour...
...election day. For example, Barak was not so long ago accused of fleeing the site of a tragic military training accident while chief of staff. While he has been exonerated in the courts, the accusations themselves are not forgotten history, and they continue to cloud his reputation. Second, his Labor party has had a difficult time shrugging off the perception that they are Ashkenazi elitists who discriminate against the electorally powerful Sephardic community...
Although unspoken as of yet, a national unity government between Netanyahu's Likud and Barak's Labor may be in the cards. Both candidates realize that it may be impossible to cobble together a sustainable coalition in the parliament. A government coalition composed of both major parties would enable Israel's leaders to execute the critical decisions necessary for peace based on real consensus. However, you won't hear either candidate utter the words "national unity" until after the elections. If Bibi were to do so, his ultra-Orthodox voters would not approach the ballot box. Likewise, if Barak spoke...
...addition to labor-market tightness, the prevalence of two-earner families and the greater importance professionals are placing on family life are adding to the challenges of making a job move tolerable. "Ten years ago, there was no value placed on the trailing spouse and kids," says Paul Purcell, executive vice president with Douglas Elliman, a national real estate company based in New York City. "But all that has changed. Nowadays someone's teenager can make or break a move...
Leaders of the Progressive Students Labor Movement (PSLM) said they came away from a meeting with University attorney Allan M. Ryan Jr. and a representative of Price water house Coopers (PWC) on Wednesday still unhappy about the conditions of a deal between the University and the accounting company...