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Barak Ravid is the diplomatic correspondent for Haaretz newspaper. He joined Haaretz in April 2007, covering the Prime Minister's Office, the Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Defense, dealing with issues such as U.S.-Israeli relations, EU-Israeli relations and the peace process.

Before joining Haaretz, Barak Ravid worked for two years for Maariv daily newspaper, spending a year covering the Palestinian Authority and a year as a diplomatic correspondent.

Ravid has a BA in the history of the Middle East from the University of Tel Aviv. He served for six years as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces, and concluded his service with the rank of captain. He and his wife live in Tel Aviv.

Latest Articles by Barak Ravid
Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas Daniel Bar-On October, 2008
Peres criticizes Netanyahu, Lieberman over Israel's dismissal of Abbas

Speaking to a conference of Israeli ambassadors, Israeli President says PA president is a partner for peace and criticizes Lieberman, saying that 'a diplomat is not supposed to scare the world.'

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  • Peres: PA president is partner for peace; Netanyahu: Abbas' words are empty
  • PA president: As long as I am in power, there will be no third intifada
  • Likud-Beiteinu: Peres 'disconnected' from Israeli public on Palestinian issue
  • In implied criticism of President Peres, Netanyahu warns against 'rushing forward' with Palestinian state
  • Abbas: We're ready to talk to any Israeli government that recognizes Palestine
PM Netanyahu at UNGA
Think tank: Israel's poor international image not the fault of failed hasbara

Study finds that Israel's advocacy effort has become one of the world's most efficient and productive, but Israel nevertheless suffers from an image problem - which is rather a product of the Israeli government's policies.

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  • Israel-based U.S. interns enlist in hasbara warfare
  • Making Israeli settlements 'hasbarable'
  • State bars Westerners living in West Bank from entering Israel, East Jerusalem
  • Rebranding Israel: History out, creativity and innovation in
  • Promoting Israel doesn't mean ignoring its past
  • Bloomberg’s friendly advice to pro-Israel, anti-BDS protesters: shut up!
  • Brooklyn College BDS event goes off quietly
  • Pro-Israel group's primer on West Bank settlements shows just how disastrous they are
Gideon Sa'ar
Israel's education minister: British condemnation of West Bank college upgrade 'baseless'

Gideon Sa'ar says Ariel University is not an obstacle to peace, adding the connection between Israel and the settlement is 'no less strong' than that of the U.K. and the Falkland Islands.

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  • U.K. 'deeply disappointed' by Israel's upgrade of West Bank college
Ron Dermer - Olivier Fitoussi - August 2011
Netanyahu's nominee for next envoy to U.S.: The brains behind his support for Romney

The prime minister reportedly wants U.S.-born advisor Ron Dermer to replace Michael Oren in Washington. But, for a number of reasons, he might want to rethink the nomination.

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  • An inside look at Netanyahu's paid advisers
  • Boston bombing will boost U.S. support for Israel, says Netanyahu aide
Mahmoud Abbas.
Abbas: If stalemate continues after elections, Netanyahu can take back the keys to the West Bank

The Palestinian Authority president says he won't go to the Hague if there are diplomatic negotiations; says Israel reduced security cooperation with the Palestinians after UN vote.

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  • Disenchanted with peace process, EU may try to force Israel, PA into agreement
  • Lieberman: Only Abbas' resignation could renew negotiations with Israel
  • Hamas to Abbas: Transfer the Palestinian Authority to us, not Netanyahu
  • Season of Palestinian threats
  • Ex-Shin Bet head: Netanyahu is an unreliable leader 'possessed' by Iran
  • Abbas: We're ready to talk to any Israeli government that recognizes Palestine
Benjamin Netanyahu. He manipulatively dredges up problems out of fear he won’t win the election.
Netanyahu: Israel's 'long arm' will strike those who threaten it

At Air Force graduation event, PM says Israel will stop at nothing to defend itself against Syrian threats, makes veiled threat against Iran; speech comes after reports of secret meeting with Jordan's king over Syria.

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  • Senior Israeli officials confirm: Netanyahu met Jordan king for secret talks on Syria chemical weapons
A screengrab of 'Eishton's' website, Dec. 16, 2012.
Israel's most sought-after anonymous blogger has won his battle with the IDF

Eishton was put under investigation over his bid to gather data on the rate of suicides in the Israel Defense Forces; three weeks later, he has emerged the victor.

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  • Anonymous Israeli blogger Eishton offers a deal to the IDF
  • IDF reveals closely-guarded statistics on soldier suicides: 24 take their own lives every year
Meeting of EU Foreign Ministers in Luxembourg - AP
Disenchanted with peace process, EU may try to force Israel, PA into agreement

Foreign Ministry report states that the EU has become disenchanted with the diplomatic process in its traditional format - direct talks between Israelis and Palestinians - because they doubt its ability to lead to a solution.

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  • UN Security Council members blast Israel over settlement construction plans
  • EU court rejects NGO Monitor petition to release details on Israeli rights groups
  • EU mulling ways to press Israel to ditch settlement expansion plan
  • Two-state salvation
  • Abbas: If stalemate continues after elections, Netanyahu can take back the keys to the West Bank
  • EU consuls recommend imposing sanctions on Israeli settlements
  • Obama’s Middle East team: old problems, new style
  • Peres tells EU president: Terror, not Israeli settlements, is obstacle to peace
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman - AP - May 20, 2012.
Lieberman denies reports of new damning testimonies against him

Former FM: 'Rumors and quotes' allegedly made by me or my 'associates' are manipulations intended to throw dust in the public's eyes.

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  • Justice Ministry delays indictment against Lieberman over new evidence
  • Lieberman resigns as foreign minister
  • Israel's AG announces major charge dropped against FM Lieberman
  • Everything you need to know: Lieberman graft case 101
  • Lieberman's 'temporary departure' is becoming a political turning point
  • 'Lieberman aides still running Foreign Ministry with Netanyahu's approval'
  • Former FM Lieberman questioned again by police over ambassador affair
Laptop computer.
Anonymous Israeli blogger Eishton offers a deal to the IDF

The anonymous blogger, who is under investigation, says he is willing to confess to suspicions against him if the Defense Ministry would publish – within 24 hours - all information regarding the deaths of 126 IDF soldiers who died last year.

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  • What is behind the mysterious investigation of an anonymous Israeli blogger?
  • Israeli blogger Eishton returns, responding to IDF probe against him
  • We are all Eishtons
  • Israel's most sought-after anonymous blogger has won his battle with the IDF
  • IDF: Suicide is the primary cause of death among Israeli soldiers
Benjamin Netanyahu, center, with party members at the Likud primary a month ago.
Likud officials call to omit Netanyahu's two-state declaration from party platform

The new platform is supposed to include a reference to the establishment of a Palestinian state, after the PM recognized the two-state solution principle in his 2009 Bar-Ilan University speech.

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  • Labor releases party platform: Renew Palestinian peace talks within three months of elections
  • Likud-Beiteinu charging forward - but without a party platform
Netanyahu Christmas message - Dec. 24, 2012
Netanyahu's Christmas message: More anti-Muslim public diplomacy

Prime Minister radicalizes traditional holiday greeting on YouTube, suggests that Christians in the Middle East are under existential threat.

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  • Likud-Beiteinu struggles to reconcile charter with Netanyahu's 'two state' Bar-Ilan speech
The advertisement for a Farsi-speaking spokesperson that was posted on Twitter by Ofir Gendelman
Speak Farsi? Netanyahu's got a job for you

An adviser to Israel's premier tweets about a new job on the market - a Farsi-speaking spokesperson - but his new recruit probably won't be in the job long before he is forced to explain to the Iranians why Israel declared war.

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  • Netanyahu: Faced with clear red line, Iran will back down on nuclear program
  • Netanyahu's new Mideast policy: An Arabic Twitter account
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Netanyahu: Israel is preparing for dramatic changes in Syria

The PM told ministers at his weekly cabinet meeting that Israel is cooperating with the U.S. and international community ahead of the Assad regime's expected downfall.

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  • Tipping point in Syria edges closer as West sees signs of Assad's demise
  • Car bomb explodes in Damascus; Russia: Neither side will win Syria civil war
  • UN envoy arrives in Syria to push peace plan, as dozens killed in air strikes
  • Dozens killed in air strike on bakery in central Syria, activists say
  • Syrian government receives badly needed Russian diesel
  • Senior Israeli officials confirm: Netanyahu met Jordan king for secret talks on Syria chemical weapons
  • U.S.: No 'credible evidence' Assad using chemical weapons in Syria
A screenshot of Netanyahu's Arabic Twitter page.
Netanyahu's new Mideast policy: An Arabic Twitter account

Without a change in approach and policy, the tweets from the prime minister's hawkish page of talking points will not help him win the hearts of the citizens in Tahrir Square.

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  • Speak Farsi? Netanyahu's got a job for you
A secreenshot from Eishton's blog.
Israeli blogger Eishton returns, responding to IDF probe against him

Blogger breaks silence to react to investigation, accusations that he's a 'traitor' or a 'coward.'

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  • What is behind the mysterious investigation of an anonymous Israeli blogger?
  • We are all Eishtons
  • Anonymous Israeli blogger Eishton offers a deal to the IDF
UN Security Council - AP - Archive
UN Security Council members blast Israel over settlement construction plans

U.S. blocks attempts to push joint presidential statement and resolution condemning construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem; In addition to thousands of new housing units, a new highway is being built that will cut the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Safafa in two.

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  • New Jerusalem highway to cut Arab neighborhood in half
  • Israel approves plan for 2,600 new homes in East Jerusalem
  • Labor slams Netanyahu over settlement expansion: Israel is headed for isolation
  • Abbas threatens to dismantle Palestinian Authority if Israeli settlement construction continues
  • Disenchanted with peace process, EU may try to force Israel, PA into agreement
  • Top security adviser to Israeli diplomats: If you don't like government's policy, quit
  • Rabbinical students lobby Netanyahu to drop E-1 building plans
  • Israel to market disputed East Jerusalem housing project before election
Vladimir Putin and Avigdor Lieberman at Netanya ceremony: Gazprom wants to do business.
Lieberman opposes Russian law restricting foreign donors, despite pushing Israeli version

Israel worries that the Russian law could affect the activities of overseas Jewish organizations in Russia, including the Jewish Agency and the Joint Distribution Committee.

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  • U.S. warns Israel over bill to limit foreign funding to NGOs
  • Russia’s crackdown on foreign NGOs - a danger for Jewish groups?
  • Lieberman defends human rights – but in Russia, not Israel
A Palestinian works at a construction site in the Jewish West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Adumim
U.S. slams Israeli 'pattern of provocation'

In an unusually blunt criticism, state department says settlement activity puts the goal of peace 'further at risk.'

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  • Israel approves construction of 1,500 homes in East Jerusalem
  • More than 400 Jewish clergy in U.S. press Netanyahu on E-1
  • European Security Council members to condemn Israel's settlement construction
  • Will Netanyahu choose Shamir or Begin as a model?
  • West Bank Palestinians strike in protest of Israeli sanctions
  • Israel approves plan for 2,600 new homes in East Jerusalem
A settlement in East Jerusalem.
European Security Council members to condemn Israel's settlement construction

France, Britain, Germany and Portugal to issue joint statement against Israel's recently announced plan to build 1,500 homes in East Jerusalem neighborhood Ramat Shlomo.

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  • Israel approves construction of 1,500 homes in East Jerusalem
  • More than 400 Jewish clergy in U.S. press Netanyahu on E-1
  • UN calls on Israel not to build new settlements in East Jerusalem
  • East Jerusalem plan was supposed to be shelved, so what happened?
  • U.S. slams Israeli 'pattern of provocation'
Uruguay's Foreign Affairs Minister Luis Almagro - Reuters - September 29, 2012.
Israel is waiting for Uruguay's next move

A diplomatic crisis between Israel and Uruguay has erupted after Israeli envoy in Montevideo exchanged verbal blows with the ruling MPP party.

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  • Strain in relations between Israel, Uruguay escalates
  • Uruguay hints Israeli ambassador should be replaced
Ramat Shlomo - Emil Salman
Israel approves construction of 1,500 homes in East Jerusalem

Palestinians call plan 'dangerous and alarming'; Jerusalem panel reduces number of homes planned for construction from 1,700 to 1,500, after hearing objections lodged by Palestinian residents of area intended for expansion; Prime Minister's Office: This is not the beginning of construction, just another stage in existing project.

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  • Israel expedites plan for 1,700 housing units in East Jerusalem
  • UN calls on Israel not to build new settlements in East Jerusalem
  • East Jerusalem plan was supposed to be shelved, so what happened?
  • Poll: 67% of centrist Israelis wouldn't elect party that splits Jerusalem
  • European Security Council members to condemn Israel's settlement construction
  • U.S. slams Israeli 'pattern of provocation'
  • Israel approves plan for 2,600 new homes in East Jerusalem
  • As election nears, Likud revels in UN, U.S. censure of Israeli settlements
  • Netanyahu: I'm not interested in what UN says about settlement construction
The post on the Israeli embassy in Ireland's Facebook page.
Israeli embassy in Ireland's latest Facebook post: If Jesus were alive, he'd be lynched by Palestinians

Israel's embassy in Dublin posts image of Jesus and the Virgin Mary, saying that as Jews without security in Bethlehem they would be attacked by Palestinians. The image has since been taken down, and the embassy published an apology.

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  • What Palestinians want for Christmas
Avigdor Lieberman
Likud campaigners mulling whether to keep Lieberman in public eye

Foreign minister hands in resignation after decision to indict him for fraud.

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  • Israel's Attorney General meets Lieberman's lawyer to discuss indictment
Drilling platform of the Leviathan natural gas field.
U.S. drafts compromise for Lebanon-Israel dispute over natural gas resources

Proposed map, based on versions submitted by both Lebanon and Israel, delineates maritime economic border and defines where each country can search for natural gas.

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  • Lebanon warns UN: Israel's proposed maritime border threatens peace and security
  • Netanyahu: Maritime borders proposed by Lebanon encroach upon Israel territory
  • U.S. backs Lebanon on maritime border dispute with Israel
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