Word: shimon
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...months after retiring from the army, in 1995, Barak entered politics as Rabin's Interior Minister. When Rabin was assassinated by a right-wing zealot that November, Shimon Peres, the successor, quickly made Barak Foreign Minister. But the moment Peres lost to Netanyahu in the 1996 election, Barak jumped in to take over as party chief, rankling Labor leaders, who regarded the former general as an upstart...
...monthly travels include trips to Russia andadditional weekend jaunts to pitch the project tocorporate sponsors--including Coca-Cola andHewlett Packard. The Truman Scholar also spendstime in consultation with the project's directors,who include the Dalai Lama, Jimmy Carter, formerIsraeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres and formerIrish President Mary Robinson...
...tentative speaker list reads like a who's who of international peace advocates. Besides Gorbachev, former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and the Dalai Lama are included in the program...
...that Ehud Barak is the runaway winner in Labor's primary election over outspoken dove Yossi Beilin and two others. Barak, 55, is a charismatic former military chief whose career and politics closely resemble those of the late Yitzhak Rabin. Much like Rabin in his own 1992 primary against Shimon Peres, Barak ran less on policy than on the promise that he alone could unseat Benjamin Netanyahu as Prime Minister and return Labor to power. His party has long shared Barak's optimism. In April, at the height of Netanyahu's influence-trading scandal, party leaders deliberately muted their attacks...
...government's obvious ethical lapses. "He has lost the moral ground to govern Israel," argues aspiring Labor leader Yossi Beilin. "We are now trying to topple the government." Huddling in their party sanctum, Labor bosses have decided to crank up the pressure with pickets and street demonstrations. Shimon Peres, who was hoping to resume national leadership by joining in a unity government with Netanyahu, called for the Prime Minister's immediate resignation and for new elections...