A day after the introduction of a partial freeze announced by the Israeli government, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, cancelled the government decision to freeze 25 new buildings in "Kedar...

Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has warned that unless a political settlement is reached between Israel and Syria, a full-fledged war might well erupt. Speaking at the annual conference...

Israeli media outlets have confirmed that a secret meeting took place between the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Israeli Minister of War, Ehud Barak, in Jordan, at a...

A source in the office of Israel's Defence Minister has said that Ehud Barak is refusing to consider any investigation into the Freedom Flotilla attack which would require the...

Israel's Defence Minister has cancelled a visit to France out of concern that he will be arrested on arrival in Paris. Ehud Barak was warned that pro-Palestine activists intend...

Israel's Minister of Defence has criticised his country's Prime Minister for the escalating diplomatic crisis with Turkey. Media sources in Israel say that Ehud Barak has for the first...

Reports from Israel say that the Defence Minister Ehud Barak has approved the construction of hundreds of new housing units in the illegal settlement of Ariel, near Nablus in...

Israeli media sources have reported escalating differences between members of Israel's coalition cabinet over the apology demanded by Turkey following Israel's massacre of nine Turkish citizens aboard Freedom Flotilla...

Media sources in Israel have warned about the escalation of international legal campaigns to pursue Israeli officers and officials on charges on war crimes against the Palestinian people. According...

Israel's Minister of Defence looks set to approve the master plans for the development of four West Bank settlements. Israeli Army radio said that Ehud Barak is going to...

Israel's Defence Minister has warned that a "political tsunami" could hit the country through the wave of international recognition of a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders. "We are...

Israel's Defence Minister has called on his government to break the deadlock in the peace process. Ehud Barak said that failure to do so will lead to Israel's isolation...

Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak has said that the Israeli Defence Forces on the borders with Egypt will continue to be on high alert until the security situation settles...

Israel's Defence Minister has called on the rest of the Israeli government to maintain strong ties with the US Administration. This is especially important, said Ehud Barak, due to...

Israel's Defence Minister has called on the Israeli government to work on improving its relations with the United States to protect Israel's legitimacy and fight attempts to "de-legitimise" the...

The diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks have revealed that Ehud Barak told a US Congressional delegation in June 2009 that he tried to coordinate Operation Cast Lead, the invasion...

The Israeli Labour Party is considering a withdrawal from the country's ruling coalition because it is "not making any progress in the peace process". The party's Yitzhak Herzog, a...

The Israeli human rights organisation, B'Tselem, has expressed its objections to Israeli Security Minister, Ehud Barak's appointment of General Yoav Gallant to the position of Chief of Staff in...

The Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano, is in Tel Aviv for his first visit to Israel since assuming office last September. According to Israel's...

Two Belgian lawyers, working on behalf of a group of Palestinians, plan to charge 14 Israeli politicians, including Ehud Olmert, Ehud Barak, Tzipi Livni and Matan Vilnai, for crimes...

The former head of Israel's intelligence agency, Mossad, has refuted the accusations that he violated the country's confidentiality rules when he attacked the government's policy for dealing with the...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Prime Minister of the Gaza Strip, Isamail Haniyeh, has met with the families of those killed during the recent 8-day Israeli offensive to honour them for...

The Palestinian government in Gaza considered the resignation of Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak to be new proof of the victory of the Palestinian resistance and Israel's failure to...

Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi told Barack Obama in no uncertain terms that if America didn't put pressure on Israel over its aggression against the people of Gaza, "the US...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES As ceasefire talks continued into the night, so too did Israel's bombing offensive against the civilians of the Gaza Strip. Casualties increased inexorably throughout Tuesday and overnight;...

A report published by the Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (B'Tselem) has stated clearly that the Separation Wall built by the Israeli government has...

Israel's Defence Minister, Ehud Barak, has pointed out that the position of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas regarding Palestinian refugees' right of return is nothing new. Abbas told an...

The Palestinian government in Gaza headed by Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has called on the Arab League to intervene immediately to put an end to "Israel's crimes against the...

Israel's Minister of Defence, Ehud Barak, has said that the Levy Report on the legalisation of settlements in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem will not boost settlement construction,...

The Israeli Defence Minister has called for unilateral disengagement from the West Bank excluding the major settlement blocs, which will be annexed to the Zionist state. Ehud Barak's proposal...

Former Israeli Air Force chief Eitan Ben Eliyahu has urged caution on the possibility of a successful unilateral attack against Iran's nuclear facilities. A report in Israeli newspaper Yedioth...

Media reports say that Israel's Minister of Defence has ordered the demolition of eight Palestinian villages in the South Hebron Hills in the occupied West Bank. Ehud Barak said...