Copyrighted Image? DMCA | Israel's defence minister, Ehud Barak, has announced he will retire from party politics at the next election in January. But the former prime minister kept open the possibility of retaining the defence portfolio if the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, is re-elected and reappoints him to the cabinet as an individual, not a party leader, in the governing coalition. Barak said he will not run in the election and that he wanted to spend more time with his family. |