The heat in Israel reached an all-time high. I stood at the Beit Rimon Junction in the middle of the day, waiting for the air-conditioned bus to save me from dehydration. My thoughts drifted to my 12-year-old granddaughter, located a…
Tag: Ehud Barak
On the agenda: a unity government
Even if a coalition against Bibi takes power, it will not rule well. Hatred of him cannot be the basis for cooperation between parties whose ideological distance is greater than that between carnivores and vegans.
Is Israel ready for the New Middle East?
It so happens that the week of the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia was also a week of internal Israeli shenanigans. Defense Minister Ehud Barak resigned from the Labor Party and established a faction called “Independence,” into which he drew four…