But Prime Minister Netanyahu has to accommodate his coalition partners in the dovish Labor Party, including its leader, Defense Minister Barak.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

Barak says Mr.Netanyahu has made concessions: Israel says it will not build new settlements, but will only allow "natural growth,"

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

The subject of Iran and its nuclear ambitions dominated talks Monday between Mr.Gates and the Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

At a news conference,Mr.Barak indicated the Jewish State is prepared to launch a preemptive strike on Iranian nuclear facilities.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

U.S.Special Envoy George Mitchell met with Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak,Tuesday.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

Defense Minister Ehud Barak told Israel Radio that the army will continue to operate in Israeli territory.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak says Iran is moving quickly toward the "point of no return."

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

But Israeli analyst Mitchell Barak says the prime minister has managed to walk a tightrope between U.S.pressure and the demands of his nationalist coalition partners.

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

The non-binding resolution in the House Foreign Affairs Committee recommends that President Barak Obama recognize the 1915 killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

In July,President Barak Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev agreed to reduce their respective numbers of nuclear warheads to between 1,500 and 1,675 under a new treaty.

VOA: standard.2010.02.03

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak. "It will change the equation."

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

Speaking behind closed doors to the parliamentary Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Barak said Iran will have the technology to build a nuclear bomb by early next year and could produce one in 2011.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

Appearing with Clinton Thursday at a meeting of the American Jewish Committee, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Israel's right-leaning coalition government now sees a two-state solution of the Middle East conflict as a "compelling imperative."

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

He described Barak as a war criminal. Israel's hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reluctantly imposed the settlement freeze last month, under pressure from the United States, which sees the settlements as an obstacle to peace.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

In an off-year election seen by some political pundits as a measure of support for President Barak Obama's popularity after his first year in office, the opposition Republicans have picked up the state house in two formerly Democratic states.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

Egyptian TV showed the envoy meeting with President Hosni Mubarak and Foreign Minister Ahmed Abou Gheit, reporting that he briefed them about his weekend talks with Syrian President Bashar al Assad and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27