Ehud Barak

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting, in the Jordan Valley on September 15, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

September 24, 2019, 11:18 am

With no proper coalition since 2018, Israeli governance is lost in transition

Netanyahu has held caretaker role for 9 months, remaining PM purely by dint of being the last person elected to the job, with diplomatic and military wiggle room legally limited

By Raphael Ahren

Then-defense minister Ehud Barak, left, and then-foreign minister Avigdor Liberman, right, arrive at a weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, November 13, 2011. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

September 22, 2019, 11:44 am

Barak warns ‘opposite of liberal’ kingmaker Liberman angling to crown himself PM

Ahead of parties’ consultations with Rivlin on picking next potential prime minister, former premier charges ‘opportunist’ Liberman is looking to take advantage of the chaos

By TOI staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz. (Oded Balilty and Jack Guez/AFP)

September 16, 2019, 7:54 pm

Gantz assails Netanyahu over reports he sought to go to war before elections

Generals-turned-politicians accuse PM of exploiting security issues for political gain after newspaper says he planned, and later abandoned, Gaza operation last week

By TOI staff

The remaining ballots from soldiers and absentees being counted at the Knesset on April 10, 2019, a day after the general elections, (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

September 16, 2019, 3:45 pm

On last day of campaign, politicians savage each other, urge voters to show up

Party leaders and top candidates make their final cases in interviews with Hebrew media, less than 24 hours before polls open

By TOI staff

Former prime minister Ehud Barak speaks at the Democratic Camp electoral alliance's campaign launch in Tel Aviv on August 12, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

September 14, 2019, 5:27 pm

Citing voter apathy and Gantz’s pull, leftist parties warn of potential wipe-out

Leaders of Democratic Camp and Labor-Gesher say Blue and White’s efforts to take in their voters could cause the centrist alliance to ‘win the battle but lose the war’

By TOI staff

Palestinian security prisoner Bassam al-Sayeh (Screenshot: Youtube)

September 10, 2019, 3:05 am

Palestinians protest after terror convict dies in Israeli hospital

PA Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh claims that Israel neglected health of cancer-stricken Bassam al-Sayeh, who was serving time for role in murder of Eitam and Naama Henkin

By Adam Rasgon

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting, at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, on June 30, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

September 7, 2019, 10:23 pm

Cabinet to vote on Likud-backed Camera Bill allowing filming in polling stations

Netanyahu to try to push through legislation despite fierce opposition, including by AG who warned it could play havoc with voting process

By TOI staff

Ali Salalha celebrates after the release Meretz primaries in Tel Aviv, February 14, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

September 7, 2019, 7:33 pm

Druze lawmaker quits Democratic Camp, says Arabs won’t vote for party

Ali Salalha says faction not taking him seriously after he brought thousands of votes to Meretz in last election, says Arab voters will not support Ehud Barak

By TOI staff

Former prime minister Ehud Barak speaks at Channel 12 news conference in Tel Aviv on September 5, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

September 7, 2019, 4:55 pm

Barak says passage of Likud-backed Camera Bill would mark ‘the end of democracy’

Ex-PM speculates Netanyahu could be pushing legislation in order to create a pretext for firing the attorney general, who is set to charge him in 3 graft cases

By TOI staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech on files obtained by Israel's Mossad that he says prove Iran lied about its nuclear program, at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, on April 30, 2018. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

September 4, 2019, 4:13 pm

Israel said again mulling raid on Iran; thinks Trump, unlike Obama, won’t oppose

NY Times exposé reveals extent of Netanyahu-Obama rift on stopping Iranian nukes; PM himself tells paper he’d ‘unequivocally’ have ordered strike in 2012 if cabinet had backed him

By Michael Bachner

Former PM Ehud Barak participates in a Saturday Culture event in Shoham, August 24, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

August 27, 2019, 5:48 am

Barak calls potential Trump-Rouhani talks a ‘red light’ for all of Israel

Former PM says Netanyahu too dependent on US president and made vulnerable by his erratic policies

By TOI staff

Democratic Camp party member Ehud Barak speaks at a cultural event in the central town of Shoham on August 24, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

August 24, 2019, 3:05 pm

Barak says Netanyahu cowed by Trump ‘like a puppy’

Ex-PM laments government’s lack of ‘bravery’ to reach out to both Republicans and Democrats, calls US president’s ‘loyalty’ remarks about Jews ‘unnecessary, damaging’

By TOI staff

Israeli attend a protest against corruption of near the home of Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit in Petah Tikva, August 17, 2019. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

August 17, 2019, 9:58 pm

Hundreds protest in Petah Tikva after claims of police brutality

Leaders of Democratic Camp demand probe into authorities’ conduct during Friday demonstrations near AG’s home; activists say elderly people beaten

By TOI staff

Ehud Barak during a press conference in Tel Aviv announcing their newly formed Democratic Camp party, July 25, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

August 11, 2019, 9:04 pm

US court rejects appeal by parents who sued Barak over son’s death on flotilla

Federal judge upholds district court dismissal of suit against ex-defense minister, who Furkan Dogan’s family argued was responsible for his death in IDF raid

By TOI staff

Former prime minister and leader of Israel Democratic party, Ehud Barak seen during an election tour in Tel Aviv on July 30, 2019. (Flash90)

August 10, 2019, 9:31 pm

Ehud Barak on Jeffrey Epstein’s death: I wish I’d never met him

Former prime minister had business dealings with the disgraced billionaire and was a frequent visitor to his homes, but denies he ever knew of any his sex trafficking activities

By TOI staff