Word: yitzchak
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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...
...polls are a crystal ball, Ehud Barak is poised to win the elections. Weaned at the knee of Yitzchak Rabin and as the former chief-of-staff of the Israeli Defense Force, Ehud Barak engenders confidence among some of the Israeli electorate. Yet despite these impressive credentials, Barak grapples with skeletons that may haunt him on 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...
...Barak has been neck and neck. Therefore, every percentage point counts. Very recently, the Israeli-Arab prime ministerial candidate, Azmi Bishara, dropped out of the race in order to give Barak his 2 percent Arab vote. Similarly, Barak received another shot in the arm when Center Party leader Yitzchak Mordechai withdrew and urged his supporters to vote for Barak. In an election which will be determined by a handful of votes, Barak seems to have the upper hand...
...respectful and pursue peace. I was not taught to hate or to destroy, and when a former member of the yeshiva was blown up by terrorists in Jerusalem, our rabbis did not tell us to go out and stage a revenge attack. And when Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, may his memory be a blessing, was killed by a so-called religious Jew, a so called Orthodox Jew, the rabbis in my yeshiva all talked about how they could not sleep at night for shame. Neither could I, and neither could hundreds of thousands of Orthodox Jews throughout the world...
...week ago today, The New York. Times reported the kidnapping of Nachshon Waxman, an Israeli soldier, by members of Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group. Right underneath, another article revealed that Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin and PLO leader Yassir Arafat would share the Nobel Peace Prize...