July 2008 Headlines
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Israel Police National Fraud Unit detectives will hold a fourth session with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Friday morning at his Jerusalem residence.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Following Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's resignation announcement Wednesday evening, members of Knesset (MKs, parliament) from across the political spectrum called for a suspension of all negotiations and new parliamentary elections.
CBNNews.com - RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas threatened to call off peace negotiations with Israel if a solution isn't reached by year's end.
CBNNews.com - RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces are taking threats by Hamas against senior PA officials in the West Bank seriously.
CBNNews.com - GAZA STRIP - Palestinian children attending summer camp in the Gaza Strip learn how to hold a Kassam rocket launcher, crawl under barbed wire, handle rifles and grenades and other appropriate militia training.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's announcement Wednesday evening -- that he would not run in his party's primaries on September 17 -- took very few people by surprise.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office refuted an Army Radio report Wednesday that said Olmert agreed to cede the Golan Heights in order to open direct talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - A 100 million euro deal between Germany and Iran for liquefied natural gas flies in the face of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's remarks to Israel's Knesset in March.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is expected to announce whether he will run again for the leadership of his Kadima Party, now that his party's election committee set an August 24 deadline for candidates vying for the chairmanship.
CBNNews.com - GAZA STRIP - Six Hamas terrorists were wounded by a massive explosion in one of the group's training facilities in southern Gaza late Tuesday night.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - An initial investigation into the death of an 11-year-old Palestinian boy, killed during an anti-fence protest rally near the Arab village of Naalin west of Ramallah, shows that soldiers from the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) or Border Police fired at protesters.
CBNNews.com - Tensions between rival Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas, continue rising, with Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces picking up dozens more Hamas-affiliated individuals in the West Bank Monday.
CBNNews.com - RAMALLAH, West Bank - The Palestinian Authority (PA) says it is facing bankruptcy after nearly 90 donor countries and international organizations failed to fulfill pledges to fund Palestinians in the West Bank.
CBNNews.com - LONDON - A new study shows that one-third of Britain's Muslim students support jihad ("holy" war), want Sharia (Islamic) law merged with UK law, and believe in a worldwide caliphate based on Sharia law.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - The Israeli Defense Ministry's Research and Development Directorate is evaluating a new laser defense system that can intercept mortar shells and Kassam rockets fired from the Gaza Strip.
CBNNews.com - WASHINGTON - Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak met with US Defense Secretary Robert Gates in Washington on Monday where the two discussed Iranian nuclear development and several other bilateral issues involving the defense establishments of both countries.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Arab neighborhoods in east Jerusalem are increasingly problematic, Shin Bet head Yuval Diskin told ministers at Sunday's Cabinet meeting.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Major General (res.) Uzi Dayan plans to announce that he's joining the Likud party.
CBNNews.com - RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party plans to arrest 200 Hamas supporters in the West Bank, after Hamas detained 200 Fatah members in Gaza, following a bombing there.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - The United States Embassy in Israel would move to Jerusalem if John McCain is elected president, the Republican hopeful told CNN Friday. Jerusalem currently houses a US Consulate office, but the embassy is in Tel Aviv.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's attorneys will allow their client to be interrogated for a fourth time next Friday.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - A new bill would allow public transportation to operate freely on Shabbat (the Sabbath), although bus lines would not enter religious neighborhoods.
CBNNews.com - GAZA STRIP - Miriam Farhat, affectionately known as the "Mother of Martyrs," was transferred from the Gaza Strip to an Egyptian hospital Thursday after suffering a massive heart attack.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Left-wing activists hope to breach the Gaza Naval blockade in two weeks.
CBNNews.com - BEIRUT, Lebanon - Convicted murderer Samir Kuntar, released nearly two weeks ago in a prisoner exchange with the Lebanese-based Hezbollah terror group, continues to announce his desire to kill.
CBNNews.com - SHABA FARMS, Israel - Hezbollah is recruiting Sunni Muslims in southern Lebanon to join "resistance battalions," particularly in villages near the Israeli border at Shaba Farms (Mount Dov).
CBNNews.com - TEHRAN, Iran - On Thursday, Iranian Vice President Gholam Reza Aghazadeh said Iran will no longer cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) investigation of the country's nuclear weapons programs.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Shin Bet (General Security Services) chief Yuval Diskin says the tahadiyeh (temporary calm) has given the Hamas terror organization a "lifeline."
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - A former senior police officer said Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's legal team is behind the leaks to the Israeli press.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Israeli police have notched up security at Jerusalem construction sites following Wednesday's terror attack, the second in three weeks using a bulldozer to mow down civilians on city streets.
CBNNews.com - One hundred and fifty Palestinians, joined by left-wing activists, entered a closed Israel Defense Forces (IDF) military zone to hurl stones at soldiers during an anti-fence protest.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Two families who lost loved ones in separate terror attacks have filed a class action suit against Fatah chief Marwan Barghouti and seven other convicted terrorists.
CBNNews.com - TEL AVIV, Israel - Tel Aviv ranked 14th in a survey of the world's most expensive cities to live in.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Three years after the government's pullout from the Gaza Strip, the vast majority of evacuees remain in limbo.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Following Tuesday's terror attack in Jerusalem, security officials are mulling responses to protect the city's residents.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's media advisor, Amir Dan, wants an investigation opened into media leaks in the corruption case against the prime minister.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Israeli Border policeman David Shriki died from wounds sustained two weeks ago in a shooting attack in Jerusalem's Old City.
CBNNews.com - MAGEN JUNCTION, Israel - Colonel Shlomi Dahan is on life support at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba after sustaining critical head injuries in a car accident Wednesday morning.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - In an attempt to strengthen the Judeo-Christian alliance around the world, Israeli politicians and academics met with Christian evangelical leaders from Asia at the Jerusalem Summit Asia on Monday.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - On Wednesday, the Knesset (parliament) will vote on new legislation allowing a simple majority of parliamentarians to require a 150-day temporary leave of absence for a prime minister.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - It took 12 days of voting, but in the end, a majority of the Kadima party's 180-member council voted to change the constitution, paving the way for the party's first primaries in mid-September.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Corporal Gilad Shalit would have been discharged with his platoon today, but he remains in the hands of his captors more than two years after his abduction.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - For the second time in less than a month, an Israeli Arab drove a bulldozer on a terror rampage down crowded Jerusalem streets.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's attorneys accused American businessman Morris Talansky of lying and the state prosecutor's office of leaking information to the press.
CBNNews.com - GAZA STRIP - For the first time since it took control of the Gaza Strip in June 2007, a Hamas military court sentenced a Palestinian too death for collaborating with Israel.
CBNNews.com - TIBERIAS, Israel - The body of a 90-year-old woman, who lived and died in Tiberias, will be buried in Carmiel near Haifa because the rabbinic authorities determined she was not Jewish.
CBNNews.com - TEL AVIV, Israel - Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport was ranked best in the Middle East, with Bahrain coming in second.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Students at Hebrew University's Givat Ram and Mt. Scopus campuses were not surprised by the arrest of six students suspected of ties to al-Qaeda.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak wants to place a media ban on future negotiations with Hamas for the release IDF Cpl. Gilad Shalit.
CBNNews.com - BEIJING - The Chinese Jewish community, which consists of a few thousand Jews living in Shanghai and Beijing, is facing a severe shortage of kosher food, ahead of temporary restrictions on imports before and during the Olympics.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - In a first-ever address by a British prime minister to the Israeli Knesset (parliament), PM Gordon Brown condemned Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's call for the destruction of the Jewish state.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas congratulated the family of convicted murderer Samir Kuntar on his release Wednesday.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's legal team continued its cross examination of American financer Morris Talansky Friday.
CBNNews.com - WASHINGTON - A recent poll showed that Israel is no longer a priority for American Jews, especially during the election year.
CBNNews.com - BEIRUT, Lebanon - At a ceremony at the graveside of assassinated arch-terrorist Imad Mugniyah, Samir Kuntar and the four other terrorists released in Wednesday's prisoner exchange swore they would liberate "Palestine."
Thousands attended Israeli funerals on Thursday for the two fallen soldiers returned in a prisoner exchange with Hezbollah. Their burials ended the two-year campaign for their homecoming.
CBNNews.com - ROSH HANIKRA, Israel - It's not the first time Israel has released Arab prisoners serving time for acts of terror in exchange for the bodies of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers killed by their captors.
CBNNews.com - ARIEL, Israel - The Israeli city of Ariel, in the hills of Samaria, has been given the go-ahead to build 27 new factories in its industrial park.
CBNNews.com - GAZA STRIP - New terrorist training videos show Palestinian gunmen conducting drills in synagogues left standing after the Israeli government's 2005 pullout from the Gush Katif Settlement Bloc in the Gaza Strip.
CBNNews.com - GAZA STRIP - A Palestinian group, calling itself "Soldiers of God," said criminals like Middle East envoy Tony Blair are not welcome in the Gaza Strip.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers, deployed along the northern border, have been put on high alert following Wednesday's prisoner swap with Hezbollah.
CBNNews.com - SINAI PENINSULA, Egypt - Israelis vacationing in the northern Sinai were urged to leave immediately, following warnings of specific terror attacks.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Assuming that kidnapped Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reservists Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser were killed by Lebanese-based Hezbollah terrorists, the IDF began making arrangements to bury their remains.
CBNNews.com - MOUNT DOV, Israel - The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is keeping close tabs on construction on the Lebanese side of the Mount Dov/Shaba Farms area.
CBNNews.com - CENTRAL LEBANON - An Azerbaijan news agency reported early this week that Iran and Syria are assisting Hezbollah's ability to track jet aircraft.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Sea Desalination Energy (SDE), an Israeli Company, won a government bid to build a hydraulic power plant in southern China.
CBNNews.com - GAZA STRIP - Middle East envoy and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was slated to visit the Gaza Strip this week. But he cancelled the visit after Israel's general security agency, the Shin Bet, warned of specific threats against him.
CBNNews.com - RAMALLAH, West Bank - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama plans to visit Ramallah next week, home of the Palestinian Authority (PA) government's headquarters, where PA President Mahmoud Abbas will brief him on the status of the peace talks with Israel.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama retracted his statement at the AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) convention in early June that Jerusalem should remain the "undivided capital" of Israel.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Just five days into the 25th annual Jerusalem Film Festival, Israelis are labeling it a success.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Although Israel expects to receive only the remains of kidnapped Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reservists Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser in exchange for five living Lebanese prisoners and the remains of some 200 Lebanese and Palestinians terrorists buried in Israel, preparations for Wednesday's exchange are underway.
CBNNews.com - SHABA FARMS - Israeli officials dismissed Lebanese threats of an attack on the northern border, even after a prisoner exchange with the terrorist group Hezbollah, slated for Wednesday.
CBNNews.com - PARIS - Israeli Arab Member of Knesset Ahmed Tibi (United Arab List - Ta'al), who attended the Union of the Mediterranean conference, said Syria's president shook his hand.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - The Gaza-based Hamas group rejected the Palestinian Authority (PA) prime minister's call for the immediate establishment of a unity government.
CBNNews.com - GAZA STRIP - Hamas officials said Israel is reneging on the release of Palestinian prisoners serving long prison sentences and those convicted of murder.
CBNNews.com - PARIS - In a public snub before leaders of 43 nations, Syrian President Bashar Assad walked out of the Grand Palais exhibition hall in Paris when Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert came forward to address a meeting of Mediterranean leaders.
JERUSALEM, Israel - Some analysts in Israel say it could soon be the end of the political road for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
CBNNews.com - According to an Iraqi defense official, Israel Air Force (IAF) jets have been flying over Iraqi airspace for a month, landing at American bases there in training for a possible future operation against Iranian nuclear facilities.
CBNNews.com - NABLUS, West Bank - Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Salam Fayyad told Palestinian residents of Nablus to defy Israel Defense Forces 9IDF) orders to close their stores in the mall.
CBNNews.com - YAKIR JUNCTION, Israel - A Palestinian gunman ambushed an Israeli driver near the Yakir Junction in northern Samaria overnight Friday, firing several shots that shattered the windshield.
CBNNews.com - GAZA STRIP - Hamas security forces arrested three members of the Fatah-affiliated al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades responsible for Thursday's Kassam rocket attacks on southern Israel.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - In a joint operation by Israeli security forces, eight members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) were arrested for throwing Molotov cocktails at Israeli cars in and around Jerusalem.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - A day after Teheran test fired nine ballistic missiles, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) sponsored an in-house exhibit of its Eitam aircraft, equipped with state-of-the-art intelligence-gathering systems.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Three new anti-terror bills passed their preliminary readings in the Israeli Knesset (parliament) Wednesday.
CBNNews.com - GAZA CITY - Gaza-based Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh called the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) operation against Hamas-affiliated civilian institutions in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) "an ugly crime against humanity."
CBNNews.com - RAMALLAH, West Bank - The Palestinian Authority's (PA) chief prosecutor escaped unharmed Tuesday when a bomb went off as he started his car.
KISSUFIM CROSSING, Israel - Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Givati Brigade soldiers shot and killed a suspected infiltrator approaching the security barrier near the Kissufim crossing at the border with Gaza.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - United Nations Resolution 1701, which accompanied the UN-brokered cease-fire that ended the Second Lebanon War in the summer of 2006, "has completely failed," Israeli defense officials said Tuesday night.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Israel's High Court of Justice refused to hear a petition from the siblings of the late Eliyahu Shahar, murdered by Lebanese terrorist Samir Kuntar in Netanya in 1979.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Results of a Gallup poll, published Tuesday, showed that religious Jews prefer Republican presidential hopeful Senator John McCain, while secular Jews support the Democrats' presumptive nominee, Barack Obama.
CBNNews.com - NABLUS, West Bank - As part of a stepped-up initiative to thwart funding of the Gaza-based Hamas terror group, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) ordered a shopping mall closed in the Palestinian Authority- (PA) controlled city of Nablus (biblical Shechem).
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Israeli Arab Husam Dwayyat, 30, who ran down three Israeli civilians with a bulldozer in Jerusalem's city center last week, bought a soda from a shop on Jaffa Road an hour before the attack.
CBNNews.com - PERSIAN GULF - Iran's Revolutionary Guards test fired nine medium- and long-range missiles in the Persian Gulf and Straits of Hormuz Tuesday.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Israel Police National Fraud investigators will question Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for a third time Friday morning at Olmert's Jerusalem residence.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Israel is facing its worst water crisis in 80 years, according to Uri Shani, head of Mekerot, Israel's national water authority.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Italy's Foreign Minister Franco Frattini is in Israel for talks aimed at "strategic dialogue," focusing on Iran, Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and the situation in the north.
CBNNews.com - DAMASCUS, Syria - Palestinian Authority (PA ) President Mahmoud Abbas met with Ramadan Abdullah Shalah, head of the Islamic Jihad terror organization, in Damascus Monday.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - In a recent grand-opening celebration of the Bureau of Outfitting, the Temple Institute in Jerusalem invited rabbis to be measured for priestly garments in preparation for the Third Temple.
CBNNews.com - PERSIAN GULF - Iran's Revolutionary Guards conducted a large-scale military exercise in the Persian Gulf Tuesday.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Revival in the Anglican Church? The Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON), which met in Jerusalem last week, revealed that a new day has arisen for the global Anglican Communion.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Under the supervision of the military rabbinate, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Engineering Corps soldiers will exhume nearly 200 bodies in preparation for a prisoner exchange with the Lebanese-based Hezbollah terror group.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is stepping up its counter-terror operations against the Hamas terror group's civilian infrastructure in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank).
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - The Iron Dome missile defense system, slated to be operational within two years, successfully passed a series of tests affirming its effectiveness against Kassam and Katyusha rockets.
CBNNews.com - DAMASCUS, Syria - Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas will meet with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus to brief him on the status of peace talks with Israel.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - As Americans celebrate over the Fourth of July weekend, they can contemplate the largely underreported good news of increasing stability and reduced violence in Iraq, with gratitude to the servicemen and women who have labored long under dangerous conditions, often with meager support from their fellow citizens.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt walks freely today, thanks in part to Israel.
CBNNews.com - ASHKELON, Israel - A new therapy program designed to help Israeli children cope with post-traumatic stress will begin in the coastal city of Ashkelon in the coming school year.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz said Thursday that no constitutional barriers prevent the demolition of a terrorist's home, according to rulings by the High Court of Justice.
CBNNews.com - RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Salam Fayyad presented his own reconciliation plan to reunite rival Palestinian factions.
CBNNews.com - GAZA STRIP - The Hamas terror organization warned that no further word would be forthcoming from captured Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Corporal Gilad Shalit.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Israeli Rabbi David Rosen received an invitation from Saudi Arabia's King Abudullah and the World Muslim League to attend an interfaith dialogue to be held in Madrid this month.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Israeli President Shimon Peres said there's no real chance of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Bat Sheva Unterman, 33, and Elizabeth Goren-Friedman, 54, killed in Wednesday's terror attack in the heart of Jerusalem, were laid to rest late the same evening.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - The family of Hussam Dwayyat told Israeli security officials that he was addicted to drugs, but was not a terrorist.
CBNNews.com - SOUTHERN LEBANON - Lebanese residents pelted UNIFIL (United Nations) forces in southern Lebanon with stones, according to the latest UN report of the implementation of Resolution 1701.
CBNNews.com - AMMAN, Jordan - Arab performers from Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon have been forbidden to attend the 27th annual Jeresh Festival of Culture and Arts in Jordan to avoid "normalization with the enemy."
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - The anti-Semitic rhetoric of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hezbollah spiritual leader Hassan Nasrallah, and the late Yasser Arafat, among many others, is evidence of the influence of Nazi ideology on Islam, according to a US historian.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - A team of three Israeli investigators has been in the US tracking down information in the corruption case against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
CBNNews.com - GAZA STRIP - Hamas officials in the Gaza Strip released another video of captive Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Corporal Gilad Shalit, according to an Egyptian newspaper.
CBNNews.com - GAZA STRIP - After Tuesday's one-day closure following Kassam rocket attacks the previous evening, Israel again opened its border crossings with the Gaza Strip.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Thirty-nine percent of survey respondents in six Arab countries in the Middle East believe Israel's demise is a matter of time.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - The U.S. State Department called predictions by an unnamed senior U.S. defense official of an imminent Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities "foolish."
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Three people were killed and 66 wounded when an Israeli Arab trampled vehicles and pedestrians in Jerusalem's city center.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - After reopening the crossings with the Gaza Strip Sunday, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered their closure again Tuesday, following more Kassam rocket attacks on western Negev communities Monday evening.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) designated a special security zone west of the border fence with the Gaza Strip, which is off limits to Palestinians.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - A bill requiring a referendum before any part of Israeli land is ceded passed its preliminary reading in the Knesset Monday.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - The Israeli Knesset (parliament) passed a law Monday banning anyone visiting enemy states from serving as a legislator.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - The Israel Police National Fraud Unit will decide in the next few days whether to open -- or reopen -- an investigation against Defense Minister and Labor Party chairman Ehud Barak.