Published: 2 July 2019
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Former PM Barak re-enters politics, challenges centre-left leaders (Al-Monitor)
Without any special effort, without a promoter or media advisers, former Prime Minister Ehud Barak showed exactly what Blue and White leader Benny Gantz lacks: a killer instinct.
Barak said pushing to form centre-left bloc that would include Blue and White (Times of Israel)
Israeli TV reports Blue and White wary of potential alliance with ex-PM’s new party, Labor and Meretz over concerns it could hurt its prospects among right-wing voters
Blue and White to go right in next election campaign (Ynet)
After analysing the results of the April 9 vote - where the party won enough seats to challenge Likud but not enough to form a coalition - the faction is considering appealing to right-wing voters, including issuing a policy statement on West Bank settlement blocs
Israel’s Meretz party becomes country’s first to elect an openly gay leader (JTA)
Photo: Ehud Barak (Al-Monitor)
