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Barak to meet Hesder yeshiva heads

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:34:18 GMT

Hesder yeshiva heads will meet Tuesday with Defense Minister Ehud Barak at his office in Tel Aviv to discuss the issue of insubordination, after a series of incidents that have sparked tension between rabbinic and military authorities.
Source: Jerusalem Post

Barak urges settlers to obey the law

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:51:11 GMT

Defense Minister Ehud Barak insisted Monday that settlers obey the rule of law, as they clashed with security personnel at the entrance to Jerusalem and across Judea and Samaria.
Source: Jerusalem Post

Quoted in 'Barak urges settlers to obey the law'

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:51:11 GMT

Ehud Barak said in Jerusalem Post:

The injunction and the government decision must be enforced. It will be done in a way that is in tune with the reality in the field. We will make sure the state imposes its authority on its citizens. The government made a unilateral decision to guarantee that the door will not be closed to restarting negotiations with the Palestinian Authority

Rabbis to Meet Barak on Threat to Har Bracha Yeshiva

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:23:00 GMT

(IsraelNN.com) A group of leading rabbis has scheduled a meeting with Defense Minister Ehud Barak Tuesday, following the attack by Maj-Gen Avi Mizrachi on the Har Bracha Yeshiva and his demand that the IDF cease enlisting its students.
Source: Arutz Sheva

Barak Insists: State will Enforce Its 'Mastery' over Citizens

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:17:58 GMT

(IsraelNN.com) Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Monday that the orders to freeze construction in Judea and Samaria “are under the government's sponsorship, they need to be enforced and they will be enforced.” He said the enforcement would be carried...
Source: Arutz Sheva

Hesder officials: IDF can't censure us

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:10:34 GMT

Hesder yeshiva heads declared Sunday night they would fight any attempts by the IDF to penalize the Har Bracha Yeshiva, whose head, Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, has called on soldiers to refuse to act against settlers and settlements.
Source: Jerusalem Post

Unknown arsonists tried torching former Arab MKs car

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:58:53 GMT

A report was received by Ynet Saturday night that Defense Minister Ehud Barak asked Tarif to send a message in his name to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
Source: Ynetnews

Israel rejects Russian request to give PA armored vehicles

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:12:56 GMT

Defense Minister Ehud Barak turned down a request Thursday by Russian National Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev to allow the transfer of 25 armored personnel carriers to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.
Source: Haaretz

Barak & Begin Leading Team to Examine Construction Ban

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:00:03 GMT

(IsraelNN.com) According to the Prime Minister’s Office, a team of cabinet ministers and government officials headed by Defense Minister Ehud Barak (Labor) and Minister-Without-Portfolio Benny Begin (Likud) will convene on Sunday to discuss...
Source: Arutz Sheva

Quoted in 'Death from "jihad-related task" in "live-breeding tube"'

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:15:21 GMT

Ahmed Qurei said in Soccer Dad:

Plans devised by [Israeli President] Shimon Peres, [Knesset Member and former defense minister] Shaul Mofaz and [Defense Minister] Ehud Barak, have put East Jerusalem Al-Quds in grave danger. The trio seek to exclude East Jerusalem Al-Quds from an Israeli pledge to freeze settlement construction in the occupied lands

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Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:07:02 GMT

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - JULY 26: U.S. President Barack Obama's special envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell (L), poses during a photo opportunity July 26, 2009 ahead of their meeting at the defense ministry in Tel Aviv.

Photo from Reuters Pictures

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:08:35 GMT

Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak (L) poses for a photograph with U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell at the U.S. Ambassador's residence in central London July 6, 2009.

BBC Ehud Barak (9/11)

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