The Labor Party elects Ehud Barak as…
June 1997 CE
The Labor Party elects Ehud Barak as its new leader on June 3.
In a bid to break the mold of Israeli politics, he apologizes to the Jews who had moved to Israel in large waves during the late 1940s and early '50s from Arab countries, many of whom have supported the Likud Party, for any slights they may have received at the hands of the Labor movement.