News from TheMediaLine.org. (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
The Israeli media is rife with reports that Defense Minister Ehud Barak's wife Nili intermittently employed an illegal Filipino migrant worker to clean the family's Tel Aviv apartment and prepare their home for guests. Arguably more damaging than accusations of what is a relatively common though illegal practice in Israel, are the report's claims that the cleaner did not have...
Left I on the News (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Ehud Barak, Israel's Defense Minister, had this to say yesterday: Defense Minister Ehud Barak met with four West Bank council heads in his office on Wednesday, and stressed to them that "the settlement blocs are an inseparable part of Israel in all future negotiations with the Palestinians. The Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea are regions that are dear to...
M E N O R A H (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
The Knesset voted by a 68-22 margin not to require the legislation to “start all over.” Among the supporters, surprisingly, was Meridor himself. Defense Minister Ehud Barak of Labor also voted in favor, as a member of the government, but...
Religion and State in Israel (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
... then let it be dismantled," said Samia during a conference at Netanya Academic College. Minister Hershkowitz: Don't close hesder yeshiva By Roni Sofer www.ynetnews.com December 7, 2009 Minister Daniel Hershkowitz, chairman of the Habayit Hayehudi party, sent a letter to Defense Minister Ehud Barak Monday in which he protests an appeal to close down the Har...
France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak has found himself in hot water amid revelations that the former premier had hired a Filipina maid without a work permit. Barak and his wife Nili had for several months employed a Filipina cleaner who did not have a work permit and did not undergo the required security checks by the Shin Bet domestic security agency, public radio reported. In...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Israel has turned down a Russian request to allow the transfer of 25 armored personnel carriers (APCs) to the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) in the West Bank, local daily Ha'aretz reported Sunday. During his Thursday meeting with visiting Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, who raised the request, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that his country...
Shiloh Musings (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... (Communicated by the Cabinet Secretariat) At the weekly Cabinet meeting today (Sunday), 6.12.09 1. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the following remarks: "Last Thursday, I met with leaders of the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria regarding the 25.11.09 Cabinet decision and listened to their remarks. The decision was certainly not easy, either for them or for us....
News from TheMediaLine.org. (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has taken a number of steps to preempt and defuse potential violence against himself and Defense Minister Ehud Barak in the wake of the announced 10-month freeze on all building in communities located on land acquired in the 1967 war. These include the prime minister meeting with members of his Likud faction to soothe their...
My Right Word (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
PM Netanyahu's Remarks at the Start of the Weekly Cabinet Meeting(Communicated by the Prime Minister’s Media Adviser) today (Sunday), 6.12.09 [ just out not yet online ]: "Last Thursday, I met with leaders of the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria regarding the 25.11.09 Cabinet decision and listened to their remarks . The decision was certainly not easy, either for them...
J O S H U A P U N D I T (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
... disarmed. But then, the UN isn't going to bring the matter up either, are they? For Israel's part, defense Minister Ehud Barack was quite open about the fact that this new policy on the part of Lebanon's goverment means that Israel will consider any attack on Israel by Hezbollah as an attack by Lebanon and react accordingly. For my part, I expect another war there by the summer...and...
Mission & Justice (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Editorial; 4/12/09 The settler leaders’ lawless behavior after the decision to temporarily and partially freeze settlement construction in the West Bank reminds us of Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s metaphor of a “villa in the jungle” to describe Israel’s place in the region. Only a few kilometers from Tel Aviv, the laws of democracy give way to [...]...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday gave his nod to set up a special task force to monitor the enforcement of a recently announced partial freeze on settlement construction, local daily Ha'aretz reported. The team, which includes Defense Minister Ehud Barak and several other senior government officials, is empowered to examine how the moratorium could...
My Right Word (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Come back and watch it rise: And this was sent to me by RA:- Following an urgent directive from President Antiochus Obama, Prime Minister Binyamin "whatever you say boss" Netanyahu, took a few minutes from his position of prostration and genuflection and directed Defense Minister Ehud "the settlers are the enemy" Barak (also known as "the...
Not a sheep (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... I said, we have made clear representations to the Israeli Government. Only yesterday, I spoke to Defence Minister Ehud Barak and pressed him for wider access to a range of humanitarian goods. The reconstruction effort that we all wanted to see after Operation Cast Lead has not been possible because of the constraints on access that continue to affect the community. The hon....
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... And the Israeli leadership accepts the illegality of the settlements but doesn’t give a damn: Defense Minister Ehud Barak met with four West Bank council heads in his office on Wednesday, and stressed to them that “the settlement blocs are an inseparable part of Israel in all future negotiations with the Palestinians. The Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea are regions that are...
