Guy Leshem
By Guy Leshem
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News Sharon: Indispensable, Not Indestructible
TEL AVIV — After holding its collective breath for two long hours this past Sunday night, waiting for news of Ariel Sharon’s health, Israel appeared to shrug off the prime minister’s mild stroke as a passing incident and returned to normal. Beneath the nonchalance, however, was a palpable uncertainty. The stroke reminded Israelis that Sharon…
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News Corruption Looms Large as Israeli Campaign Begins
TEL AVIV — The recent conviction of Prime Minister Sharon’s most trusted political confidant — his son Omri — is dragging the long-festering issue of government corruption into the Israeli election campaign. Just minutes before the prime minister officially registered his new Kadima party last week, he directed aides to strike his son’s name and…
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News Netanyahu, Defense Minister Face Off for Likud’s Top Spot
TEL AVIV — When Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz announced his candidacy to lead Israel’s ruling Likud Party this past Monday, he was not just challenging the party’s presumed heir-apparent, Benjamin Netanyahu. He was indirectly challenging his own political mentor, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who had founded the Likud but left it this week. Moreover, Mofaz…
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News New Labor Chief Upends Israeli Politics
TEL AVIV — Surging out of the gate after his upset win in last week’s Labor Party leadership primary, union firebrand Amir Peretz scored a rapid series of tactical victories this week and appeared poised to remake Israeli politics into a competitive sport for the first time in years. Peretz, 53, a political maverick who…
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News Israel Stalls On Removal Of Outposts, Official Says
TEL AVIV — Israel is stalling on the removal of illegal outposts, according to the official who wrote a government report on the matter. Eight months after the Cabinet approved her investigative report showing collusion by government agencies in the construction of illegal West Bank settlement outposts, the government has taken no significant steps to…
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News Poverty and Crime Rates Reveal Israel’s Failure To Absorb Ethiopian Immigrants
TEL AVIV — Following a wave of violent incidents, political controversies and alarming sociological findings regarding the poverty-plagued immigrant community, Prime Minister Sharon has agreed to head up a campaign to boost public support for Ethiopian Israelis. The campaign, which is being organized by the Jewish Agency for Israel, is set to launch next month….
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News Talks With P.A. Halted After Shootings
TEL AVIV — Prospects for renewal of Israeli-Palestinian dialogue, already stalled in the wake of two canceled summits this month, went into a deep freeze this week following a pair of Palestinian terrorist attacks in the West Bank that left three Israelis dead and five wounded over the post-Yom Kippur weekend. Israel immediately reinstituted a…
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News Sharon Scores a Likud Victory, But Still May Form New Party
TEL AVIV — Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon emerged from his latest battle against top Likud rival Benjamin Netanyahu with an unexpected victory and a significant bounce in the polls. But Israeli political players and prognosticators still are guessing whether Sharon will stay put in the Likud Party or jump ship to form a new,…
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