Ehud Barak

Team including Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Minister Benny Begin convenes for first time Friday to discuss implementation of construction freeze in settlements  

A committee headed by Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Minister-Without-Portfolio Bennie Begin will examine the implementation of the settlement construction freeze and tend to the needs of citizens hu...  

In meeting with four West Bank council heads, Defense Minister Ehud Barak stresses that 'settlement blocs are inseparable part of Israel in all future negotiations with Palestinians'. Vows council heads can continue to authorize infrastructure construction, small changes  

Defense Minister Ehud Barak justified his decision to participate in the Likud-led government at a Sunday night meeting of Labor party activists.  

A day after the security cabinet announced a 10-month moratorium on housing starts in the settlements, Defense Minister Ehud Barak moved swiftly on Thursday to order the most dramatic crackdown on Jewish West Bank construction in the history of the settlement movement. Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Barak suspended all permits for building projects in the settlements where contractors have not yet broken ground. The order, valid for 10 months...  

JERUSALEM, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak Tuesday warned Lebanon that it, not Hezbollah, would be the target of retaliatory attacks should the militant group escalate tension along Israel's northern border. Barak made the ...  

Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, opposition leader Tzipi Livni among 10 Israelis named in complaint filed by group of Norwegian lawyers  

Israel should renew peace negotiations with Syria, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said at Sunday's cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. A peace accord with Syria will serve Israel's vital interests such as security arrangements, deterrence, demilitarization ...  

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has canceled his two-day visit to Spain. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak cancels his next week Spain visit, rejecting any relation between the decision and a reported row with Madrid over the command of the UN ...  

Associates of Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Saturday said the minister opposes the establishment of a state inquiry into the Gaza war, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was considering launching such a probe. Netanyahu made the ...  

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Tuesday said that the Israeli army was "getting ready for any military confrontation that may erupt with Lebanon," welcoming at the same time "the current state of calm dominating the northern front". During an ...  

Jerusalem/Ramallah, Oct 31 (DPA) Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak called Saturday on the US and Palestinians to “make an effort to start negotiations” and added that an impasse in the dialogue would only benefit Hamas. Ahead of the arrival of US Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barak said that a “a dead end in the [...]  

Have Labor Party ministers learned a lesson from the public outrage over the exorbitant expenditures of their party chief, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, at the Paris Air Show in June? Based on data obt...  

Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Thursday that Iran must halt enriching uranium, in the most senior Israeli response to an internationally backed draft plan that calls for Tehran to ship its uranium abroad for enrichment. "I repeat that the ...  

Herb Keinon , THE JERUSALEM POSTIsrael will not set up an inquiry committee that will question soldiers about the war crimes allegations contained in the Goldstone Commission report, but will rather fight the legitimacy of that report and work to change the laws of war, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Sunday. Barak's comments came after a meeting Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu convened in his office to weigh the ramifications of the...