Month: January 2011

Ehud Barak’s surprise exit from the Labor Party along with four senior colleagues had all the hallmarks of one of his famous military operations. Barak the general was always considered a tactical genius; reservations that were expressed about his military achievements lay mostly in the strategic realm. His break with Labor was a most elegant

The eighth president of Israel, Moshe Katzav, is now a convicted rapist, after a three-judge panel of the Tel Aviv District Court issued a unanimous decision to that effect. A man honored upon his election just a decade ago as a boy from the slums who made it to the top, he is now reviled