Nearly 10 years to the day since Ehud Barak was first elected chair of Israel's Labor party, he emerged victorious again on June 12--in a narrow primary win over his more dovish opponent, Ami Ayalon. In May 1999, Barak trounced the incumbent Likud prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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