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Former Israeli PM making surprise comeback

At 75, after leaving politics twice, former Prime Minister Ehud Barak still scares Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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The Labor Party will be holding its primaries July 4, with eight candidates (Amiram Levin has quit the race) competing for the role of chairman of the battered party. It will be the first time that the most interesting candidate is not even running. This is someone who already served twice as the head of the party that created the State of Israel and who was Israel’s chief of staff, defense minister and prime minister: Ehud Barak.

Without even declaring it, Barak is in the middle of a fascinating political comeback. His working assumption is simple: Labor is a party without a leader, while he is a leader without a party. Now, all that needs to be done is to help them find each other. The chances of that happening are slim, but until just a few months ago, there was no chance of it happening at all. Now, everyone is talking about it.

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