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Lessons from Lebanon

Ehud Barak shares the honour with another comrade-in-arms of being the most decorated soldier of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) ever. His role in ‘Operation Isotope’ (1972), daring raid in Lebanon (1973) or the Entebbe raid (1976) amongst countless others have elevated him in the Israeli imagination as a first-rate patriot and defender of his nation.

Curbs on rice

While an incumbent government is expected to do everything it possibly can to secure a fresh mandate, the decision by…