Results for “Israeli Knesset”

…hik and me, Benny Begin had decided to run on the right. Also in the contest was Knesset member Azmi Beshara, the first Israeli Arab citizen to seek national office. When we chose “One Israel” as the name of our campaign alliance, it was not meant just as a catchy phrase. Though...

…time. We reconvened around eleven at night, to discuss both the questions and the Jerusalem package. Though it retained Israeli sovereignty over the entirety of the Old City, it did give the Palestinians a greater measure of control over other areas of East Jerusalem than any Isr...

…ldiers out of Lebanon within a year of the election. I was determined to go ahead with it not just because I’d promised Israelis to do so. It was because I knew from experience that without setting a deadline and sticking to it, it wouldn’t happen. I had been against keeping the...

… the American Jewish businessman Ronald Lauder to meet President Assad. The visit made it clear to Bibi what successive Israeli leaders had learned: a deal might be possible, but only if Israel was willing to commit in advance to pulling out of the Golan. Assad told Lauder to com...

… a move which stunned the world—flew to Israel and addressed the Knesset in a bid for a peaceful resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Subsequently, in 1978, he signed the Camp David Accords that established a separate bilateral peace agreement with Israel. Camp David highlig...

…em ignored. Israel won the war in the end. But the Egyptians’ surprise attack across the canal — and the panic and huge Israeli losses in the early days of the war — had shattered our aura of invincibility. Politically, Sadat had gone a long way to erasing the humiliation of 1967...

…oor. We would also risk forfeiting the American support we’d secured by our efforts to reach a peace deal, an asset all Israeli governments would benefit from in other circumstances and contexts in the future. Fortunately, I had an alternative to a coalition with the Likud. Alar...

/ BARAK / 105 Yet the turnout was the lowest in Israeli history. Arik received fewer votes than I had in 1999. Around half of the 1.8 million people who had supported me stayed at home. I conceded defeat after the first exit polls and said I would be stepping down as head of th...

…s, and the US-made TOW missiles that Israel acquired after the war, had the capability to transform a battlefield. Now, Israeli developers came up with small, ground-launched missiles that could take out a tank from five to 10 miles away, even without a direct line of sight to th...

…ions he had shirked at Camp David, Arik went one, dramatic step further. He raised the idea of unilaterally withdrawing Israeli forces and settlements from Gaza — ensuring a showdown with the rank and file of the Likud, and other parties on the right. His main Likud rival, very m...

…ic Teens: the King made visits to Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait from January 29" to February 4. Syria: Israeli warplanes are generally believed to have struck a convoy en route to Lebanon on January 30", although this has not been confirmed by the government of I...

… I had known each other for more than half-a-century, nothing I could do or say was going to change that. With the next Israeli election months 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...

was “Get Gaza out of Tel Aviv!” Labor ended up gaining five Knesset

barely. Arik needed a majority of the Knesset’s 120 seats to bring

the peace activist Uri Avneri and Knesset member