Will There Be Another Act in Outgoing Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon's Tempestuous Career?
To return to the political arena and contend for the premiership, the outgoing defense minister will need political skills he may not have.
Breaking:
- U.S. says Iraqi forces have retaken western town of Rutba (AP)
- White House on lockdown after reports of what sounded like gunshots (Reuters)
- NRA endorses Trump for president (Reuters)
- Magnitude 6.2 earthquake hits central Australia (Reuters)
- Violence erupts as Iraqi protesters storm Baghdad's green Zone (AP)
- Nasrallah: No evidence to connect Israel to the death of Badreddine (Haaretz)
- Hamas: Lieberman's threats don't scare us (Haaretz)
- Russia calls for joint airstrikes with U.S. against Nusra Front in Syria (AP)
- Bodies of two Palestinian assailants to be returned to families on Friday (Haaretz)
- Netanyahu: No crisis of confidence with Ya'alon, he should have stayed on as FM (Haaretz)
- gypt military says finds EgyptAir plane debris off Alexandria (Reuters)
- Defense Minister Ya'alon: Extremist parties have taken over Israel (Haaretz)
- Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon quits political life (Haaretz)
- Australian police raid opposition Labor in tight election campaign (Reuters)
- Tsai Ing-wen inaugurated as Taiwan's first woman president (AP)
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