Prime ministerial elections were held in Israel on 6 February 2001 following the resignation of the incumbent Prime Minister Ehud Barak on 9 December 2000. Barak stood for re-election against Likud's
Ehud Barak 1999
Ehud Barak, Bill Clinton, and Yasser Arafat during the 2000 Camp David Summit
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Likud, officially known as Likud – National Liberal Movement, is a major right-wing political party in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin and Ariel Sharon in an alliance with several rig
2001 Israeli prime ministerial election
…Israel on 6 February 2001 following the resignation of the incumbent Prime Minister Ehud Barak on 9 December 2000. Barak stood for re-election against Likud's Ariel Sharon. The third and last prime ministerial elections (separate elections were scrapped before the next Knesset elections in 2003), they were…
Menachem Begin, the founder of Likud
A truck canvassing for Likud in Jerusalem in advance of the 2006 election
Ze'ev Jabotinsky, a Revisionist Zionist leader
Menachem Begin in 1978