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DEBKAfile
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March 7, 2009, 10:24 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Palestinian tractor driver hoisted a police van, injuring two police officers, in downtown Jerusalem. When he tried to toss the van onto a bus packed with schoolgirls, a passing taxi driver pulled a gun and shot him dead.
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March 7, 2009, 7:12 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's political sources report that the Histadrut Trade Unions leader, Ofer Eini, who has emerged as supreme national fixer in the ongoing crises over business closures and layoffs, has thrown his support behind the outgoing defense minister Ehud Barak's bid to join Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud-led government.
This powerful support ... 
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March 7, 2009, 6:54 PM (GMT+02:00)
The man certain to form the next Israeli government after the general election of Feb. 10, Likud's Binyamin Netanyahu, started out with a handy lead of well over 30 Knesset seats (out of 120). But his campaign blunders are eroding this lead to below 30. The deserters are swinging over ...
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March 3, 2009, 9:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
Preparing to end his term as prime minister, Ehud Olmert was informed Sunday, March 1 that state attorney Menahem Mazuz had decided to indict him on corruption charges in the Talansky case. Moshe Talansky, a Long Island businessman, testified last May that he gave Olmert payments of $670,000, some stuffed ...
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March 3, 2009, 9:19 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Iranian media were first to disclose that the sophisticated Israeli Harop drone is capable of targeting the Russian radar-equipped S-300 anti-air missile before it enters attack mode.
debkafile's military sources report that Israel's Harop killer-drone can travel 1,000 km to patrol an assigned area and loiter there until ... 
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March 2, 2009, 12:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli leaders insist that Israel's armed forces left Hamas seriously crippled. This is undeniable but still the Gaza conflict is not over yet.
The divisions in the Arab world have encouraged Tehran to persist in rearming Hamas and the Hamas-Damascus faction to maintain its intransigent posture. They are certain that high ...
DEBKAfile
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March 1, 2009, 8:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
Preparing to end his term as prime minister, Ehud Olmert was informed Sunday, March 1 that state attorney Menahem Mazuz had decided to indict him on corruption charges in the Talansky case. Moshe Talansky, a Long Island businessman, testified last May that he gave Olmert payments of $150,000, largely stuffed ...
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March 1, 2009, 11:55 AM (GMT+02:00)
Sources close to prime minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu reported Wednesday night, Feb. 25, that his three candidates for defense are in descending order the incumbent Ehud Barak, head of the Labor party, Shaul Mofaz of Kadima or Moshe Yaalon of Likud. All three are former chiefs of staff.
DEBKAfile
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March 1, 2009, 11:43 AM (GMT+02:00)
After Labor and Kadima leader Ehud Barak and Tzipi Livni refused to join his wall-to-wall national government, Israel's designated prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu has launched negotiations for a centrist government coalition supported by a parliamentary majority of 65 members of the right-of-center and religious parties.
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February 25, 2009, 10:14 AM (GMT+02:00)
While Labor is solidly behind Ehud Barak's decision to go into opposition, Tzipi Livni could not afford to shut the door because her Kadima party is on the point of revolt. They are eager to take up the top jobs on offer rather than joining her "fighting opposition."
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February 22, 2009, 7:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
A special cabinet session Wednesday, Feb. 18, unanimously endorsed prime minister Ehud Olmert's demand that Gilead Shalit's freedom be a pre-condition for any truce arrangements for Gaza and its crossings. Until Olmert took the reins out of his hands, defense minister Barak had been leading the Israeli side of the ...
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February 22, 2009, 7:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
As he began consultations for the formation of Israel's post-election cabinet Wednesday, Feb. 18, President Shimon Peres made an extraordinary statement. Addressing the Presidents Conference, he admitted for the first time that Israel's unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip in 2005 was a mistake "which will not be repeated." His ...
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February 21, 2009, 9:38 AM (GMT+02:00)
One of the hi-tech gadgets the Israeli Defense Forces exhibited at its Southern Command headquarters Tuesday, Feb. 17, was EyeBall, the size of a tennis ball. Tossed into a closed area it relays a 360-degree picture of its interior in 15 seconds. Made by ODF Optronics, Tel Aviv, this was ...
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February 19, 2009, 10:03 AM (GMT+02:00)
US president Barack Obama has bought Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu's program for attacking the Palestinian issue by first building a strong West Bank economy, debkafile's Washington sources report. For its execution, Washington is in favor of Netanyahu forming a unity government in partnership with Kadima's Tzipi Livni and ...
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February 17, 2009, 2:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's political sources report that in preliminary talks Wednesday, Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu offered Kadima's Tzipi Livni the pick of 10 top portfolios for joining a government led by him. He has refused to consider rotating the premiership between them. Rather than leaning on right-wing support, Netanyahu hopes ...
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February 15, 2009, 9:15 AM (GMT+02:00)
Both claim the lead for forming the next government. Tzipi Livni's Kadima came out on top of Israel's general election Tuesday, Feb. 10, with 28 Knesset seats (out of 120)- only one place ahead of the 27 polled by Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud. He heads the right-of-center camp of 64 against ...
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February 10, 2009, 9:25 AM (GMT+02:00)
The aspiring prime minister, foreign minister Tzipi Livni, broke new ground when she voiced her views on the Middle East dispute this week. She challenged US and European diplomacy's conventional wisdom of gearing peace to a two-state solution. Palestinian leader Ahmed Quraia followed her which disclosures of what he claimed ...
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February 8, 2009, 11:40 AM (GMT+02:00)
Binyamin Netanyahu's apparent choice of the unpopular Ehud Barak to stay on as defense minister is one of his campaign blunders. It tells the voter that he is not offering hope for change.
Read debkafile's prognosis in its Special Analysis below. 
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February 5, 2009, 9:15 AM (GMT+02:00)
"To all the warmongers among you I say I am not minister of war but minister of defense."
This emotional statement was delivered by Ehud Barak Monday, Nov. 24, to his many critics at a briefing session of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee. He went on to lambast ... 
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January 24, 2009, 8:44 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Israeli voter will want to know the name of the defense, finance and foreign ministers in Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu's shadow cabinet well before general election date of Feb. 10, 2009. He - and she - are desperate for a fresh, credible team capable of addressing its deep concerns ...
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