Ehud Barak is an Israeli general and politician who served as the tenth prime minister from 1999 to 2001. He was leader of the Labor Party from 1997 until 2001 and again from 2007 until 2011. He previously held the posts of defense minister and deputy prime minister under Ehud Olmert and then in Benjamin Netanyahu's second government from 2007 to 2013. He attempted a political comeback, running in the September 2019 Israeli legislative election as the leader of a new party that he formed. His party merged with other parties to form an alliance called the Democratic Union, but the alliance did not win enough seats for him to become a member of the Knesset.
Weiner is a surname or, in fact, the spelling of two different surnames originating in German and the closely related Yiddish language. In German, the name is pronounced, of which the rare English pronunciation is a close approximation. In Yiddish, the name is pronounced almost as in southern German.
Ehud Olmert is an Israeli politician and lawyer. He served as the 12th Prime Minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009 and before that as a cabinet minister from 1988 to 1992 and from 2003 to 2006. Between his first and second stints as a cabinet member, he served as mayor of Jerusalem from 1993 to 2003. After serving as PM, he was sentenced to serve a prison term over convictions for accepting bribes and for obstruction of justice during his terms as mayor of Jerusalem and as trade minister.
Eitan Cabel is an Israeli politician who represented the Israeli Labor Party in the Knesset from 1996 to 2019.
Ehud is a Biblical given name, currently common in Israel. The etymology is unknown.
Aliza Olmert is an Israeli artist, photographer, author and social worker. She is married to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, also Sholom Ber Wolpe, is a rabbi and an Israeli political activist. Wolpo is the author of more than forty books.
Avigdor Yitzhaki is an Israeli politician. He is a former member of the Knesset for Kadima, having been the party's parliamentary group chairman and head of the coalition. He is the chairman of Friends of Schneider.
Banai is an Israeli and Persian surname. It may refer to the following people:
Toledano is a family name derived from the city of Toledo, Spain. Bearers of the name can be found mainly in Spanish-speaking countries, the United States, France, Canada, Israel, and Australia. The surname is also found among Sephardi Jews in their various diasporas, indicating possible ancestry traced back to Toledo, Spain. The Toledano name was also retained among non-Jews in various Spanish-speaking countries. The Jewish Toledanos were expelled from Spain in 1492. After the expulsion from Spain the Toledanos went to Safed, Salonika, and Morocco. They arrived in Fez, Morocco during the 16th century from Salonika and from there went to Meknes and became leaders of the community from the 16th century until the present day.
Kahlon is a surname. Other spellings of this name include Kahloon, Kahloun, Cahloon and Cahlon. The name has multiple origins including German, Israeli, Irish, Indo-Scythian, Hebrew, and Jat.
Events in the year 2008 in Israel.
Events in the year 2007 in Israel.
Events in the year 2007 in the Palestinian territories.
The Palestine Papers is a collection of confidential documents about the Israeli–Palestinian peace process leaked to Al Jazeera, which published them between 23 and 26 January 2011. Nearly 1,700 documents from the office of the main PLO negotiator, Saeb Erekat, and his team have been published, dating from 1999 to 2010.
Barak or Barák is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
The Annapolis Conference was a Middle East peace conference held on 27 November 2007, at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, United States. The conference aimed to revive the Israeli–Palestinian peace process and implement the "Roadmap for peace". The conference ended with the issuing of a joint statement from all parties. After the Annapolis Conference, the negotiations were continued.
Yaari or Ya'ari is a Hebrew-language surname. Notable Israeli people with the surname include:
Gazit is a Hebrew surname. It is the 930,678th most common surname in the world (2022) It may refer to:
Not one inch was Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin's campaign pledge in 1977 to not to return an inch of territory without a peace agreement. By 1983, the phrase became the policy of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, and it took on a different meaning: The phrase meant that Israel would not cede any territory or land as a part of any compromise. The slogan has been in continuous use in Israel since 1977.
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