Word: perese
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Before the pardon, Rich appeared to have it all--a mansion in a Swiss village, a global business and a helicopter to take him skiing where no lift could reach. But if he left Switzerland, Israel or Spain, he risked getting bounced to New York to face criminal tax-evasion...
On Wednesday, Israel's outgoing prime minister, Ehud Barak, decided - once again - to retreat from political life. Barak, who first announced his intentions to abandon leadership of the Labor party on February 6, when he lost a landslide election to Ariel Sharon, had subsequently reconsidered when he was offered the...
Matt Rees: This is just another point on an extended Barak timeline. On February 6, right at the end of a rather long-winded concession speech, Barak said, more or less: "By the way, I intend to resign from the Labor party and the Knesset and take a break from...
Will Peres take the job as defense minister? Rees: Probably. He's been defense minister before.
It wasn't what Barak's advisers thought he should do, but the political brawl that has begun behind the scenes in Labor suggests he might be smart to let his rivals duke it out. Knesset speaker Avraham Burg, a former Peace Now activist, is the front runner to take...