Drawn to politics, he became a rising star in the right-wing Likud Party, holding a succession of ministerial posts after Netanyahu defeated Shimon Peres of the Labor Party in the 1996 election. An ...
David Brinn has been working at the Post for decades, and his career has seen him interview big names in music and help push ...
and former President Shimon Peres in May 2012. Chaim Weizmann, then-President of the Provisional Council of the State, stayed ...
Israel's intelligence network experienced a major blunder with Operation Suzanna, a failed plan to stage attacks in Egypt and ...
Israel’s annexation of the occupied West Bank is not a future prospect; it is a fact of life. Israelis and Palestinians live ...
Internationally, much of the blame for Israel’s current policies is laid at the feet of far-right elements in Israel’s ...
But Israel’s so-called moderate leaders, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, immediately inaugurated the most intensive phase of settlement to date. By January 1996 settlers numbered 140,000. Rabin told ...
Israel's famed intelligence agencies are synonymous with slick executions, under-the-radar operations, and a legendary spy network. But even Israel messes up sometimes. Like Egypt 1954.
But the most effective pressure can come from the White House in Washington. President Biden, who over the past year has ...
The Head of State, Aleksandr Lukashenko, has met with representatives of various nationalities living in BelarusThe President noted ...
bluntly violating orders from the military, that this is totally, totally illegal. And instead of ordering the military, Shimon Peres, who was in charge of the military, the IDF, and therefore in ...
For all her onscreen boldness and teaching-Bogie-how-to-whistle bravado, actress Lauren Bacall, who died on August 12, 2014, at age 89, spent a good part of her career timorously trying to dodge ...