Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak vowed that if he is chosen to lead he Labor party, he will push for new general elections.

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IDF Brigadier-General Yosef Kuperwasser told a Herzliya strategic conference that Iran will have an atom bomb by 2010, warning of the consequences of such a reality.

--Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is to be transferred from Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital to a rehabilitation facility at Tel HaShomer Hospital in Tel Aviv. Sharon has not regained consciousness since he suffered a second stroke in early 2006.

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Operation Ali Baba began in May, 1950, bringing 113,000 Iraqi Jews to Israel.