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Barak returns to politics in bid to oust Netanyahu

By Pa
June 27, 2019

TEL AVIV: Israel’s former prime minister Ehud Barak has announced he is returning to politics and is forming a new party that will aim to unseat prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in upcoming elections. Speaking at a Tel Aviv press conference on Wednesday, Barak called for an end to “Netanyahu’s rule with the radicals, racists and corrupt, with the Messianists and his corrupt leadership”.The 77-year-old Barak, who was once Netanyahu’s army commander, served as military chief and then prime minister from 1999-2000.