Israel's Barak says will not quit govt over report
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Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said on Sunday he would not pull his Labour party out of the government, ensuring Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's coalition holds together for now despite a critical Lebanon war report.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair vowed on Friday not to quit before British police finished a political funding investigation, despite growing alarm in his Labour party over the damage the probe is inflicting on the government.
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Israelâs prime minister said the cancer is not life-threatening and would not distract his work.
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SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt  - Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak made a fence-mending visit to Egypt on Wednesday after Israel's foreign minister accused Cairo of risking stability by not stopping arms smuggling into Gaza.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared Monday that Israel would not carry out disengagement under fire and promised that the army would respond with severity to continued attacks on Israeli communities in the Gaza Strip.
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Israel's Ariel Sharon says he will push ahead with plans for Gaza disengagement, despite a rebuke from his Likud party.
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Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak won the leadership of Israel's Labor Party on Wednesday, putting him in an influential position to decide the fate of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his coalition government.
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Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak will be named Israel's defence minister next week in a reshuffle of the coalition cabinet rushed through in response to Palestinian factional warfare in Gaza, officials said on Friday.
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Israeli newspapers forecast Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's survival on Thursday after a report criticized the army and his government's conduct during a 2006 war in Lebanon but offered him a political reprieve.
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Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed Sunday to continue on his path of economic reform, despite the political insecurities facing the government, and said that any party joining government will have to accept the economic policies adopted by the Likud
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JERUSALEM, Feb. 7 -- Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak threatened Thursday to intensify military operations in the Gaza Strip if fighters continue using the Palestinian territory for rocket attacks on southern Israel. Earlier in the day, Israeli troops supported by tanks, artillery and fighter...
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Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak claimed victory on Wednesday in the leadership race for Israel's Labour Party over his challenger, former intelligence chief Ami Ayalon.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is vowing to press on with his plan to pull Israeli settlers and soldiers out of the Gaza Strip despite his party&#39;s rejection of a partnership with the pro-withdrawal Labour Party.
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Syria on Tuesday insisted that it had not dropped a demand that Israel stick to a promise said to have been made by late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin to abandon all Syrian land under any peace treaty.
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Israel&#39;s prime minister has vowed to press on with his disengagement plan, despite its receiving another rejection from his mutinous Likud party.
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Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak was leading a close race for the leadership of Israel's Labor Party on Tuesday, a television exit poll showed.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon survived  two no-confidence votes in Israel's parliament on Monday,  clinging to power as he seeks to push through a disputed plan  for withdrawal from some occupied territory.