Results for “Prime Minister Sharon”

…erm as chief-of-staff and, with initial opinion poll numbers suggesting he’d do well, even briefly entered the race for Prime Minister. Now, he endorsed Yitzhik Mordechai instead: a man not only with strong military credentials, but of Sephardi background and religiously observan...

… I wasn’t going. Even if the no-confidence vote succeeded, the new Israeli electoral system, with its separate vote for Prime Minister, meant I would remain in office, at least until the summit was over. In a nationally televised message, I reminded the country that I’d been elec...

… I wasn’t going. Even if the no-confidence vote succeeded, the new Israeli electoral system, with its separate vote for Prime Minister, meant I would remain in office, at least until the summit was over. In a nationally televised message, I reminded the country that I’d been elec...

…i Sunnis, who rightly saw Maliki’s move as sectarian and an assault on government participation by Sunnis not under the prime minister’s thumb. Three days after the arrests, demonstrations broke out in Ramadi, Fallujah and Samarra. Three days after that, a large protest closed th...

…ings have frayed nerves in the Israeli government, which had already been skeptical of the Egyptian revolution. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a Knesset committee on May. 30, "Global terrorist organizations are meddling [in Sinai] and their presence is increasing...

… issue.” I assumed this was a white lie, told to reassure me. But years later, when I was Minister of Defense, and then Prime Minister, I sometimes found myself on the other side of such meetings. An officer or official would come see me because of something said about them in th...

…proval to destroy the reactor, with the understanding that the precise timing of the operation would now be left to the Prime Minister, the Defense Minister and the Foreign Minister: Olmert, me and Tzipi Livni. The three of us met immediately after the cabinet discussion. Olmert...

…ost eight and was left with only 32. That meant that my last three years as chief of staff would be with Rabin back as Prime Minister — and, like Ben-Gurion before him, as Defense Minister as well. He and I had been in touch only occasionally since his departure from the unity-c...

…proval to destroy the reactor, with the understanding that the precise timing of the operation would now be left to the Prime Minister, the Defense Minister and the Foreign Minister: Olmert, me and Tzipi Livni. The three of us met immediately after the cabinet discussion. Olmert...

PROGRAMME FOR THE PRESIDENT AND FIRST LADY FOR THE 67" UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY 22-29 SEPTEMBER NEW YORK Saturday, 22 September 2012 02.15 PM: President Arrives In JFK fe) Flight # EK 201 ° Composition of the motorcade. o Car 1: President + First Lady o Car 2: PR + Couns...

the Minister of Intelligence and Security. Khamenei intervened to reinstate the minister whose incompetence had become proverbial.

…re again underestimating Bibi’s strength, as well as the effect of the country’s new electoral system. He was the first Prime Minister to enjoy a direct, personal mandate. That turned upside down the balance of power and influence in our politics. As he assembled his coalition, t...

… Hebrew for “bridge.” Without explicitly suggesting we join forces, I explained my hope to run my eventual campaign for Prime Minister in alliance with a few other parties. I told him I wanted to make my candidacy a legitimate choice for voters from the center-right, the Orthodox...

… rewarded and elevated by a presidential visit. The scramble to send invitations to Trump Tower has already begun. U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May is considering an invitation on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II. Trump’s friendship with and preference for Brexit leader Nigel Farage a...

…ell off. I accepted this. I recognized that I was not just a former kibbutznik. I had been head of the Labor Party. And Prime Minister. Still, I did feel much of the personal criticism was unfair. I had devoted more than four decades of my life to serving my country. I’d behaved...