Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said the militants would be made to pay.

Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon has suggested the surveillance video might have been doctored.

Her hard but bearable life is upended when the Israeli defence minister moves in next door.

Things like the Munich massacre have happened in the past, Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak told reporters.

Speaking in February, Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said West Bank settlers felt security had never been better.

The Israeli defence minister Ehud Barak has announced that he is leaving politics following general elections in January.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice shakes hands with Israeli Defence Minister Amir Peretz prior to their meeting today.

The idea was proposed by French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner in phone conversations with Israeli defence minister Ehud Barak.

Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon shrugged off a question from reporters on whether the launch might have been ill-timed.

Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said he had spoken to France and the United States about the Jewish state's worries.

Possibly it is loosening its grip, for all sorts of reasons, Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak told Channel Two television.

Possibly it is loosening its grip, for all sorts of reasons, Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said in a television interview.

Israeli Defence Minister and Alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz said: The State of Israel has great challenges in a variety of arenas.

Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said on Wednesday, however, that any decision about an Israeli assault on Iran was very far off.

The latest bloodshed occurred a few days after Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon declared that grassroots Palestinian violence was on the wane.

Israeli defence minister Benny Gantz ordered the closure of the fishing zone off the Gaza coast "until further notice" yesterday.