Binyamin Ben-Eliezer

Coalition and opposition MKs alike congratulated former IDF chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Gabi Ashkenazi Monday for the four years in which…

The political cartoon in Wednesday’s Yediot Aharonot said it all. It portrayed a sweating Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu looking into…

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Celebrations erupted across the Middle East on Friday after Hosni Mubarak stepped down as Egypt's president. From Beirut to Gaza,…

Israel watched Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's resignation with trepidation Friday, concerned the ouster of its staunchest Arab ally might…

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak realizes he must step down and is looking for an honorable way out, Labor MK Binyamin Ben-Eliezer who has long known…

THE CHASM between Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Labor MK Binyamin Ben-Eliezer grows ever wider – but there’s one commonality that, no matter what,…

The socialist: Shelly Yachimovich, 50, is a former radio and TV broadcaster who focuses on socioeconomic and labor issues. One of the more diligent…

JERUSALEM — President Barack Obama's response to the crisis in Egypt is drew fierce criticism in Israel, where many view the U.S. leader as a…

Barely 12 hours after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak canceled the appointment of Maj.-Gen. Yoav Galant as the…

“I have no doubt that the situation in Egypt is under control,” Labor MK Binyamin Ben-Eliezer told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. “The intelligence…

It’s Monday evening in the Knesset and only a few hours since former of welfare and social services minister Isaac Herzog officially handed over his…

Egyptian anti-government activists clashed with police for a second day Wednesday in defiance of an official ban on any protests. Beefed-up police…

Labor MK Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, who is close to Mubarak and met on Tuesday with a senior Egyptian official, said Mubarak's regime was strong and…

THURSDAY IS International Holocaust Remembrance Day as designated by the UN in November 2005. This day was chosen because it is the date on which the…

The Independence faction’s Shalom Simhon replaced Labor’s Binyamin Ben-Eliezer as industry, trade and labor minister on Monday, following a ceremony…

Former Labor secretary-general Micha Harish, who has agreed to temporarily head the party, expressed hope on Monday that his stint would be…

One of the most intriguing results of last week’s split in the Labor Party was the follow-up polling on whom voters would prefer to see replacing…

The Labor Party put on a show of force Thursday at a meeting of its executive committee at the party’s Kfar Saba headquarters that became a pep rally…

Ehud Barak’s dramatic departure from the Labor Party, designed to help him remain in the cabinet, has solidified his role as Prime Minister Binyamin…

When the new ministers of Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s nascent Independence faction were sworn in at the Knesset on Wednesday evening, the holiday…