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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
Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman
Israel justice minister proposes reducing legal advisers' role in ministries

Neeman's proposal would mean that the opinions of the ministries' legal advisers would not be automatically added to proposed resolutions, except in cases when they deemed them to be unequivocally illegal.

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Netanyahu and Barak at the cabinet meeting.
Barak calls for security cabinet meet over stalled negotiations with Palestinians

Prime Minister Netanyahu indirectly responds to Defense Minister Ehud Barak's remarks, made during Sunday's cabinet meeting, saying that Palestinians are avoiding 'discourse of peace.'

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The PM at a press conference.
Faced with wave of criticism over Iran, Netanyahu coddles journalists who support a military strike

During the past week alone Netanyahu personally called two writers, an Israeli and an American, to praise them for backing his stance.

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N Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - AP - Sept. 21, 2012.
UN chief angered over Netanyahu's 'leak' of private talk on Iran, sources say

Prime Minister's Office launches official internet, media campaign to attempt and sway Ban Ki-moon from his intention to visit the NAM conference in Tehran.

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  • Netanyahu asks UN head Ban Ki-moon to cancel visit to Tehran conference
  • Israeli official: Iran has made progress toward developing nuclear warhead
Ehud Olmert speaks during a conference at the Ono Academic College in northern Israel
Olmert: Israeli strike on Iran without U.S. okay 'irresponsible'

Olmert tells crowd in northern Israeli college that the Iranian nuclear project has not 'reached a level that forces Israel to act immediately or in the near future.'

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  • Netanyahu: Threat to Israel's home front dwarfed by threat of nuclear Iran
  • Israeli official: Iran has made progress toward developing nuclear warhead
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Aug. 12, 2012.
Netanyahu: Threat to Israel's home front dwarfed by threat of nuclear Iran

PM accuses previous governments of neglecting investment in home front; says will appoint new home front defense minister in coming days.

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  • Israeli official: Iran has made progress toward developing nuclear warhead
  • IDF to test emergency text-message alerts to Israelis' cell phones
  • Olmert: Israeli strike on Iran without U.S. okay 'irresponsible'
  • Oil prices rise to nearly $94 amid concerns over Israel-Iran conflict
Iran's heavy water nuclear facilities near the central city of Arak
Israeli official: Iran has made progress toward developing nuclear warhead

The new intelligence was introduced as a last-minute update to the special National Intelligence Estimate on the Iranian nuclear program that was submitted to U.S. President Barack Obama a week ago.

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  • The world doesn't seem so worried by Netanyahu's threats to strike Iran
  • A grave warning on Iran from 'the decision maker'
  • An Israeli strike on Iran nuclear facilities could endanger Israel's Dimona reactor
  • Netanyahu: Threat to Israel's home front dwarfed by threat of nuclear Iran
  • Olmert: Israeli strike on Iran without U.S. okay 'irresponsible'
  • UN chief angered over Netanyahu's 'leak' of private talk on Iran, sources say
  • Ari Shavit's countdown / Yossi Beilin warns against an 'un-Zionist war'
N Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - AP - Sept. 21, 2012.
Netanyahu asks UN head Ban Ki-moon to cancel visit to Tehran conference

PM argues that Ban's participation in Non-Aligned Movement summit would reward Iranian obstinacy and grant legitimacy to regime, which openly calls for annihilating Israel.

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  • New intelligence reveals Iranian military nuclear program advancing faster than previously thought
  • An Israeli strike on Iran nuclear facilities could endanger Israel's Dimona reactor
  • The world doesn't seem so worried by Netanyahu's threats to strike Iran
  • UN chief angered over Netanyahu's 'leak' of private talk on Iran, sources say
  • Egypt's Morsi to visit Iran in late August
  • Defying calls from U.S., Israel, UN chief plans visit to Tehran
  • UN chief slams Iran's human rights record during Tehran visit
Panetta and Barak in Ashkelon - Reuters - August 1, 2012
Barak: New U.S. intelligence report raises urgency over Iran's nuclear program

Defense Minister Ehud Barak confirms Haaretz's report that Obama recently received an NIE report which shares Israel's view on Iran's progress toward nuclear capability; Israel, U.S. positions on Iran now closer, says Barak.

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  • Obama gets new U.S. NIE: Iran making surprising progress toward nuclear capability
  • Amid sanctions, the greatest threat to Iran's nuclear program may be the price of chicken
  • White House: U.S. focusing on talks with Iran, no comment on new intel report
Burgas bus
Report: Israel finds unusually high number of Lebanon, Burgas phone calls made before attack

Israeli and Bulgarian intelligence services still do not have clear evidence of Hezbollah's involvement in the attack.

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  • Israel has no doubt about who is behind the deadly attack in Bulgaria
  • Israel official: Suicide bomber attacked Israelis in Bulgaria
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - AP
Obama gets new U.S. NIE: Iran making surprising progress toward nuclear capability

National Intelligence Estimate backs Israel's view of surprising, significant progress; 2007 NIE report claimed Iran had suspended nuclear program.

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  • New intelligence reveals Iranian military nuclear program advancing faster than previously thought
  • Barak: New U.S. intelligence report raises urgency over Iran's nuclear program
  • White House: U.S. focusing on talks with Iran, no comment on new intel report
Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant.
New intelligence reveals Iranian military nuclear program advancing faster than previously thought

Western diplomat and Israeli officials who asked not to be named say U.S., Britain, France, Germany and Israel share same intelligence information, agree that assessment.

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  • Before attacking Iran, Israel should stop shooting itself in the foot
  • Obama gets new U.S. NIE: Iran making surprising progress toward nuclear capability
  • Netanyahu asks UN head Ban Ki-moon to cancel visit to Tehran conference
Sheldon Adelson
Report: Adelson asked Romney to publicly demand release of Jonathan Pollard

Daily Beast says Romney refuses request, saying he 'could not consider the Pollard situation because he doesn’t have access to the classified information.”

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Israel's ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren.
Israel's envoy to U.S. jumps the gun, blames Iran for Sinai attack

On his Twitter and Facebook accounts, Michael Oren points his finger at the Islamic Republic, despite the fact that Defense Minister Ehud Barak attributed the attack to an al-Qaida affiliate.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Netanyahu: If Israel attacks Iran, I will take responsibility for the consequences

In closed forum, PM castigates defense officials, accusing them of conducting discussions on Iran in such a way as to absolve themselves of responsibility in any future commission of inquiry.

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  • Israeli strike would only delay Iran's nuclear program by two years
  • Netanyahu to Panetta: Iran is not convinced West is serious about stopping its nuclear program
  • U.S. presented Netanyahu with contingency plan for Iran strike
  • In comments about Iran attack, Israeli ex-officials may be sounding the alarm
  • As Netanyahu pushes Israel closer to war with Iran, Israelis cannot keep silent
Sharm el Sheik Dec. 2, 2010 (AP)
Israel says terror groups are planning to abduct Israelis from the Sinai peninsula

Counter-Terrorism Bureau issues warning received new intelligence that Gaza-based Palestinian terror groups, organizations linked to Al-Qaida in Sinai planning imminent attacks on Israeli tourists there.

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  • Israeli air strike kills Palestinian militant riding motorcycle in south Gaza Strip
  • Dozens of rockets, mortar shells explode near Gaza, southern Israel
  • Armed militants attack Egyptian army outpost, try to infiltrate Israel border
Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan
U.K. mediating between Israel and Turkey in bid to end impasse

Britain delivering messages between Netanyahu and Turkey's PM, but no formula has yet been found to bridge the gaps.

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  • Turkish PM: Israel sent 'the world's richest Jew' to broker a deal with Turkey
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Secretary of Defense Panetta, August 1, 2012.
Netanyahu to Panetta: Iran is not convinced West is serious about stopping its nuclear program

Prime Minister Netanyahu says sanctions, diplomacy have had no impact on nuclear weapons program; Panetta: We will not allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon, period.

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  • Panetta: U.S. prepared to implement 'other options' to prevent a nuclear Iran
  • Panetta, Barak: U.S.-Israel defense ties stronger than ever
  • Netanyahu: If Israel attacks Iran, I will take responsibility for the consequences
Morsi and Peres - Reuters, Noiberg
Egypt denies Morsi sent letter to Israeli President Shimon Peres

Egyptian president's spokesman says reports of Morsi letter to Peres, in which he wished stability and security for all of the region's nations, including Israel, did 'not correspond to reality.'

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  • The new Egypt and the Olympic silver medal
  • Egypt's president wrote to Peres: I hope for peace and stability in Middle East
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Benjamin Netanyahu
Netanyahu: I have yet to make a decision regarding an attack on Iran

The prime minister gives interviews to Israeli TV channels, saying reports of the top military brass opposing an Israeli strike on Iran is 'irresponsible reporting.'

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  • Panetta denies reports of plan to discuss Iran attack with Israel
  • Amid talk of Iran nuclear attack, Israeli leaders must heed what the IDF has to say
  • There’s no difference between Romney and Obama on Iran
  • Netanyahu, Barak to tell Panetta: Israel reserves the right to defend itself
  • Panetta, Barak: U.S.-Israel defense ties stronger than ever
  • Netanyahu: If Israel attacks Iran, I will take responsibility for the consequences
Egypt’s newly elected President Mohammed Morsi, in Cairo, Egypt, July 31, 2012.
Egypt's president wrote to Peres: I hope for peace and stability in Middle East

Mohammed Morsi, a Muslim Brotherhood official, thanks the Israeli president for offering him blessings ahead of the month of Ramadan.

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  • In personal letter, Netanyahu urges Egypt's Morsi to honor peace treaty with Israel
  • Egypt denies Morsi sent letter to Israeli President Shimon Peres
Vladimir Putin and Avigdor Lieberman at Netanya ceremony: Gazprom wants to do business.
Lieberman complained to Putin over Russian TV's 'anti-Israel' reporting

Foreign Minister reportedly raised the issue at his meeting with the Russian president after months of frustration about the Russia Today's broadcasts.

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There's no one like Mitt Romney in Israel.
Romney outrages Palestinians by suggesting Israeli culture is superior

During a fundraiser for Jewish-American supporters, Romney hinted that the Israeli economy is prospering, unlike the Palestinian Authority's, due to superior culture.

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  • Romney calling Jerusalem Israel's capital is 'unacceptable,' says Erekat
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Armored personnel carrier
Israeli cabinet approves wide-ranging budget cuts

Steinitz cuts Defense Ministry budget by NIS 100 million after discovering that Ehud Barak would vote against the latest reforms.

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  • Budget cuts to issue blow to psychiatric hospitals, blood banks
The Israeli Embassy in flames after an explosion, in New Delhi, India,  Feb 2012.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard behind attack on Israeli embassy car in New Delhi, says India Police

The Times of India newspaper published a report of an India Police investigation into the February attack, in which Tali Yehoshua-Koren, the wife of the Defense Ministry's representative to India, was injured.

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  • Witnesses in New Delhi say motorcyclist attached bomb to Israeli's car
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