Ehud Barak

Defense Minister Ehud Barak has loosened some of the restrictions on changes to existing Jewish homes in Judea and Samaria. Defense officials said that language in the order had been changed to allow council heads to issue permits for renovations, as long as it did not allow additional apartment units to be added to a building, but simply modified existing ones.Council heads can also issue  

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations said Thursday it has reached agreement in principle with Israel on payment for U.N. losses during the war in Gaza a year ago. U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky ... Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak discussed the ...  

An order issued by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak will allow local West Bank municipal councils to authorize home renovations and public infrastructure work.  

Defense Minister Ehud Barak disappeared on Sunday and Monday and may have met with 'moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen. Diplomatic officials revealed earlier in the week that Barak had spoken to Abbas this week, but they gave the impression that the two spoke by phone. Barak's spokesman said on Sunday that he would be "on vacation" for those two days.When reporters in the  

Jerusalem. Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has received dozens of death threats from people who fear Jewish settlements in the West Bank will be disbanded as part of peacemaking with the Palestinians, officials said on Wednesday, Reuters reported ...  

Less than two months after he accepted responsibility for severe excesses incurred during a government-sponsored visit to the Paris Air Salon in June, Defense Minister Ehud Barak is again under scruti...  

Defense minister's office receives letter, passes it on to Shin Bet. 'Mr. Ehud Barak, if you think about destroying settlement in Judea and Samaria, you are incorrect. I will murder you beforehand, and if I don't succeed – then after you are done being minister when you don't have bodyguards,' letter reads  

Israel – Students of the Har Bracha yeshiva petitioned the Supreme Court Friday against Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s recent decision to remove the school from the Hesder program, which mixes Jewish studies and military service. The school was ousted over remarks by the head of the yeshiva, Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, against the use of soldiers [...]  

In January 2009, with Ehud Barak in charge as Defense Minister, the IDF was not ordered to try to find Gilad Shalit and rescue him. Now that it's nearly January 2010 and Ehud Barak is still in charge as Defense Minister, Hamas claims that the Israeli government is making a half-hearted effort to find Gilad Shalit. Do you believe it?A senior Hamas official said that Israel had recruited a number  

Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said on Monday that Iran's recently diclosed second uranium enrichment plant is "immune" to conventional bombing. "The new site near Qom is meant for enrichment. What was revealed by the Iranians had been built over years and is located in bunkers that cannot be destroyed through a conventional attack," Barak told parliament's foreign affairs and defence committee. Iran notified the UN nuclear watchdog in...  

This isn't too surprising. Defense Minister Ehud Barak is forcing IDF Chief Rabbi Avichai Ronsky out of the IDF by taking the unusual step of not renewing his appointment. Rabbi Ronsky came under fire from Barak's Leftist constituents by handing out brochures to IDF soldiers who fought in Operation Cast Lead that quoted what the Torah says about fighting wars in Israel. Refusing to renew the  

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak met Sunday in Jerusalem with Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, officials said. "We're always happy to see him," Barak said as he and Suleiman held a half-hour meeting at Jerusalem's Crowne Plaza Hotel, The ...  

Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman met in Jerusalem on Sunday, where they reportedly discussed regional shared security threats as well as Israel's stalled peace talks with the Palestinian Authority. The meeting ...  

ReutersBarak: Israel wants Shalit freed, but not at any costHa'aretzDefense Minister Ehud Barak said Tuesday that the release of abducted Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit was Israel's top priority, but stressed that the government would not pay "any price" to Hamas in a prisoner exchange deal. ...Israel responds to prisoner exchange offerCBC.ca'Israel gives response to Hamas through German mediator'Jerusalem PostBlast injures 3 Gaza...  

Several weeks ago at the Iran conference I organized here in Seattle, Muhammad Sahimi was asked about the Times of London report that an Iranian intelligence memo purportedly claimed that country was developing a nuclear triggering device that could ignite a nuclear weapon.  The force of this report was that Iran was forging full steam [...] Related posts:Barak: Nuclear Iran No Existential Threat to Israel Wonders never cease.  Ehud Barak...