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were members of the Knesset’s defense committee. But from the day

…ess to revive the search for peace — but also because of the real prospect he would choose violence instead. Since the Knesset was about to go into recess until late October, I would have a three-month window to reshape and stabilize my coalition — but only if we could weather a...

…remain as Defense Minister, and to keep Labor inside the coalition, that was not an easy argument to make to my reduced Knesset contingent. They saw joining Bibi, especially in a government with the right-wing Lieberman as Foreign Minister, as a betrayal of all the efforts that t...

… away, in January 2013, I confided to Nili, and then to my closest aides, that I was not going to run for a seat in the Knesset. Israeli military action against Iran 429 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028277

…ormer director of the Jaffee Center at Tel Aviv University. Colette Avital, former ambassador and deputy speaker of the Knesset, is international secretary of the Israel Labor Party. Maj. Gen. Shlomo Gazit was military coordinator in the Occupied Territories and head of military...

One of the captured Golani soldiers was a 19-year-old named Uri Ilan, the son of a member of the Israeli Knesset whom Ben-Gurion and the whole of the government knew well. The soldiers’ captivity dragged on until they were finally returned to Israel in March 1956. By then, howeve...

…inion polls suggesting she’d been effective in shaping the campaign as a choice “between Tzipi and Bibi.” Kadima got 28 Knesset seats, to 27 for Bibi and the Likud, which gave her the first crack at forming a government. There’s no way of disguising the fact that Labor’s result i...

…od curdle. “Is that what you are?” There was pandemonium. Maybe Begin would have won anyway. But it was close, just one Knesset seat between the two major parties. And win, he did. I became increasingly convinced in the weeks that followed that Begin’s second government, with Ar...

…. Even before I'd left for Camp David, the defections from our coalition meant we’d been left with only 42 seats in the Knesset, nineteen short of a majority. Amid the first, sketchy media reports that we were even talking about sharing control of parts of Jerusalem with the Pale...

…has. The Sephardi Orthodox party was still not prepared to rejoin the cabinet, but it did promise a “safety net” in the Knesset to ensure we would not have to worry about no-confidence votes while confronting the Palestinian violence. I knew Shas’s support would waver if there wa...

…ly two weeks earlier, Arafat’s own police force, with weapons we had given them, had opened fire as I was trying to get Knesset approval for returning three villages that he wanted. After I took office, I'd ordered a full-scale intelligence review of the security situation with t...

…ly in its political survival.” The vote of no-confidence went against him by the yawning margin of 81 to 30, with nine Knesset members abstaining or staying away. A few days later, the date for the election was announced: May 17, 1999. 304 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011775

One of the captured Golani soldiers was a 19-year-old named Uri Ilan, the son of a member of the Israeli Knesset whom Ben-Gurion and the whole of the government knew well. The soldiers’ captivity dragged on until they were finally returned to Israel in March 1956. By then, howeve...

… parties. In 1992, as the director of the Norwegian research institute Fafo, I initiated, together with then member of Knesset Yossi Beilin, secret talks between him and local Palestinian leader Faisal Husseini, at the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem. These talks, which were...

…om Lebanon within a year. I realized that even among those who knew that made sense, voices would be raised both in the Knesset and the Aivra against withdrawing. As with the Bar-Lev Line before the 1973 War, the longer the “security zone” was in place, the more difficult that po...