Results for “Government of Israel”

…at on the route that I was proposing to take, he would have my back. But what I couldn’t be sure of was whether my own government would have my back. On paper, we had a comfortable Knesset majority: 75 out of the 120 seats. But I knew it was inherently vulnerable, both to fricti...

… My policy is one of prevention, and not one of containment— and the President has made clear that is the policy of our government. As Secretary of Defense, I will make sure the Department is prepared for any contingency.” Satloff's views were echoed by another tough-talking off...

…tential friction between us: Shimon’s future, and possibly mine, in leading our opposition to Bibi and bringing a Labor government back to power. The question of Peres’s leadership was unavoidable. Labor’s constitution mandated a vote for party chairman within 14 months of an el...

…ying that health-care providers are drowning in paperwork. “The number of quality metrics that we have to report to the government every year is just going up like crazy. We're now reporting well over 100 quality metrics on a regular basis,” he said, describing regulation paperwo...

… the Palestinian conglomerate financing a third of Rawabi. Massar and Qatar Diar, the real estate investment arm of the government of Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, jointly created Bayti Real Estate Investment Company -- Palestine to build and market Rawabi. But if two-thirds of...

…counted, thanks to the fact two dozen MKs abstained, both sides lost. Arik fell seven votes short of a majority. So the government survived. But those opposed to the summit got more votes than we did: 54 to 52. There were several consolations as I prepared to fly out from Ben-Gu...

…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. Alarmed at t...

…telligence-sharing alliances with key allies the most important was with the British code- breaking service, called the Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ, which in World War II had achieved enormous success in using computers to crack the German Enigma cipher. This...

…. Tens of thousands of people lived there. As the Americans and even the Palestinian negotiators recognized, no Israeli government, Labor or Likud, 345 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011816

…r. Ofakim was a development town that had yet to develop. It had no visible means of support, and there was no sign the government was doing much to remedy that or integrate the new immigrants economically and socially. The “restaurant” was a side business a family had set up in...

…or the opinion column he published in Sunday’s Post. It read like a declaration of war. Prince Turki is not now in the government. Yet he is a member of the Saudi royal family and was once the kingdom’s intelligence chief and its former ambassador to both London and Washington....

…de for his successor. But under Israeli law, he would remain Prime Minister until she either succeeded in forming a new government or called early elections. She opted in the end for Option B, and the election was set for February 2009. That meant Olmert would still be Prime Min...

…tion, not only had Arik remained as a minister without portfolio when Shamir succeeded Menachem Begin. In the coalition government, he had become Minister of Trade and Labor. Most importantly, when he’d been Agriculture Minister under Begin, he was the driving force in plans to e...

…e, the same could not be said of the country I’d served for my whole adult life, or of the political party I'd led into government. The continuing construction of the security fence along the West Bank finally did begin to reduce the sheer number of Palestinian attacks: from near...

…e uprising. “I think now we’ve passed the most dangerous moment. I hope so, I think so,” she said. Shaaban repeated the government line that Syria faced an armed rebellion, and disclosed that she had been tasked with initiating a dialogue with dissidents. “We see [the Syrian even...