Runoff will decide Israeli Labor leader
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A former prime minister and a political newcomer who both pledge to bring down Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government will face each other in a runoff after an inconclusive vote for leadership of Israel's Labor Party, final results showed Tuesday.
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Israel's governing Likud Party and opposition Labour Party are due to sign an agreement to form a coalition.
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Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Shimon Peres, chairman of the opposition Labor Party, said Israel should have early elections after the ruling Likud Party voted against coalition talks.
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JERUSALEM A spokesman for Israel&#39;s Labor Party says Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (ah-ree-EL&#39; shah-ROHN&#39;) is inviting his traditional rival into the government coalition.
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Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak won the primary for head of Israel's dovish Labor Party, officials said early Wednesday, in a race between two ex-military officers who had both called on Israel's current leader to resign.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's  Likud party voted on Thursday in favor of his bid to bring the  opposition Labour party into government, officials said.
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JERUSALEM Israel confirmed on Wednesday that it would allow international observers to monitor Palestinian elections Jan. 9 for a new president, as the Palestinians had requested.
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Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak was leading a close race for the leadership of Israel's Labor Party on Tuesday, television exit polls showed.
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The head of Israel&#39;s opposition Labor Party signaled Thursday that his party is not only willing but eager to join a unity government with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon because it backs his plan to pull out of Gaza and parts of
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TEL AVIV, Dec 21  - The formation of Israel&#39;s new coalition government inched closer Tuesday when Labour approved a deal bartered between the main opposition party and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud.
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nearly three decades, a dress rehearsal for a presidential ballot next month to choose Yasser Arafat&#39;s successor. Fatah movement and Islamists sworn to destroying Israel.
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Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak won the leadership of Israel's Labour 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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Israel&#39;s ruling Likud bloc and the opposition Labor Party are set to meet Saturday on final details of a national unity government.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon marshalled support for Thursday&#39;s Likud party vote to bring the Labor Party into a government that would block snap elections and pave the way for a Gaza withdrawal next year.
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Results in the Israeli Labour primary put leader Amir Peretz in a distant third, bringing a period of uncertainty.
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Members of the dovish Israeli Labor Party were choosing a new leader Tuesday, picking between two retired soldiers &#151; one an ex-premier who fizzled fast and the other a newcomer to politics.
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Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak emerged marginally ahead in a runoff vote for leadership of Israel's Labor Party on Tuesday, exit polls showed.