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Minister Uzi Landau (Israel is Our Home) and MK Avi Dichter of opposition party Kadima both expressed support Thursday for a renewal of the "targeted killing" policy against terror chiefs. Dichter also called for striking civilian infrastructures in the terror haven. The "targeted killings" policy is a proactive anti-terror tactic in which the IDF does not wait for terrorists to act against Israel in order to strike at them. Rather, it uses its air superiority in order to pick off known terrorist leaders based on real-time intelligence regarding their whereabouts. Dichter, who is a former Head of the Shin Bet...

Siegfried Landau, the founding conductor of what is now called the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, died on Monday night, along with his wife, Irene Gabriel, in a fire at their home in Brushton, in northern New York State. Mr. Landau was 85. His wife, a former ballet dancer, was 70. The deaths were confirmed by Adam Teeter, a spokesman for the Brooklyn Philharmonic, which was known as the Brooklyn Philharmonia during Mr. Landau’s tenure, from 1955 to 1971. From 1961 to 1968, Mr. Landau was also conductor of the White Plains Symphony. From both podiums Mr. Landau regularly insisted on conducting...

Outgoing Likud MK Fires Arrows in All Directions Wednesday, March 29, 2006 / 29 Adar 5766 MK Uzi Landau, #14 on the Likud list - he will not be in the next Knesset - said this morning that the Likud's crushing defeat "was an earthquake, which is generally followed by aftershocks." Asked to pinpoint the reasons for his party's failure in the election, Landau blamed his fellow former ministers, the media, the economy, and more. Considered the leader of the "orange"/hawkish/anti-Disengagement camp within the Likud, Landau told Army Radio, "We partially deserved the punishment the public gave us, but not...

Nov. 24, 2005 18:47 | Updated Nov. 24, 2005 21:25 Low turnout mars Sharon-less Likud committee event By GIL HOFFMAN The Likud central committee convenes Minister without portfolio Tzahi Hanegbi Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski The first Likud central committee meeting without Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was intended to be a showcase of party unity in the post-Sharon era, but instead it will be remembered for its low turnout. When the event was supposed to start at 5 p.m., the room was nearly empty. It started an hour late and finished shortly thereafter. Organizers said after the event that 911 central committee...

Likud to Choose New Leader Likud Committee approves December primariesAmid growing tension among candidates for Likud leadership, ominous polls ahead of March general elections, Likud Central Committee convene in Tel Aviv Thursday to approve December 19 as date for leadership contest Attila Somfalvi Closing in. Mofaz Photo: Gil Yohanan A positive campaign. Netanyahu Photo: AFP Amid the growing tension among the candidates for Likud leadership and the ominous polls ahead of the March general elections, the Likud Central Committee is convening in Tel Aviv Thursday to approve the date for primary elections for party chairmanship and to determine the ordering...

Nov. 16, 2005 8:24 | Updated Nov. 16, 2005 19:39 New poll finds Sharon has 30% lead over Netanyahu By GIL HOFFMAN AND JPOST STAFFPrime Minister Ariel Sharon at Sunday's cabinet meeting. Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski If Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is considering whether to split the Likud and form a new party, he may want to draw his attention to a recent poll that found that he would defeat his main challenger, MK Binyamin Netanyahu, by over 30 percent. The poll, which was commissioned by Channel 10 and conducted among Likud voters, found that nearly 49% would vote for Sharon,...

TEL AVIV, Aug 9 (Reuters) - A leading Israeli rightist said on Tuesday he would seek to topple Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as head of the ruling Likud party before the next general election, due in 2006. Uzi Landau, leader of a Likud "rebel" faction that tried in vain to scuttle Sharon's Gaza pullout plan in votes of the cabinet and parliament, told a news conference that he would run in Likud's next party primary. Sharon's main primary rival is expected to be Benjamin Netanyahu, an ex-prime minister who resigned as finance minister on Sunday in protest at the plan...

Last Update: 12/01/2005 23:03 PM wins war of wills with Likud rebels on State Budget bill By Mazal Mualem and Zvi Zrahiya, Haaretz Correspondents The Knesset on Wednesday approved the first reading of the 2005 State Budget bill after the Likud rebels decided to support it. The bill was passed by a majority of 64 to 53 MKs, thus preventing a deep parliamentary crisis as sources close to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned that if the bill was rejected, Sharon would not hesitate to call on new elections. The anti-disengagement Likud rebels decided earlier on Wednesday to vote in favor...

Jan. 11, 2005 20:34 | Updated Jan. 11, 2005 23:17B> Rebels to decide government's fate By NINA GILBERT AND GIL HOFFMAN The fate of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's two-day-old national-unity government will be decided on Wednesday morning when the so-called rebels convene at the Knesset to decide how they will vote on the 2005 state budget. Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu brought the budget before the Knesset for a first reading for a second time on Tuesday without knowing for certain whether he would have a majority to get it approved on Wednesday. The budget deals totaling NIS 890 million with...

Likud voter turnout climbs to 60 percent By GIL HOFFMANPM: "Either Israel progresses or goes to elections. It's simple: Those who don't vote, sink the boat."PM threatens to call early elections Photo: APAll 26 polling stations at the Tel Aviv Fairgrounds opened on time Thursday, after Tel Aviv District Court Judge Uri Goren rejected a petition from Likud 'rebels' trying to block the vote on widening the coalition. As planned, voting began at 10 a.m., with polls scheduled to close twelve hours later. Results are expected at midnight. Low voter turnout lasted throghout Thursday, causing concern to the prime minister's...

He and his wife, Lisa, go down to the eastern shore of Maryland for a getaway weekend, and then, by coincidence, they meet Hubbell and his wife down there. Hubbell, also from the Rose Law Firm, at the time the country's de-facto top law enforcement law officer because Janet Reno in effect was taking her orders from Hubbell. They go over to the estate of Michael Cardoza, who is the son-in-law of Nathan Landau, a big deal Democratic fund-raiser, and Cardoza is also the head of Clinton's legal defense fund. Supposedly, this was all poolside chit chat. Baloney, it was...

Dr. Uzi Landau, Minister 20 April 2004 Prime Minister Mr. Ariel Sharon Jerusalem Mr. Prime Minister, Mr. Prime Minister. I do not write this letter to you as a politician. As politicians we have disappointed. I write to you as one of the People, who, by right, should have his voice heard even if he opposes your position. I wish to start not with what I, along with most members of the Likud, opposed with our hearts and souls all these years but instead with what I support with a certainty: I am for peace, and I know that there...

Speaking in a live interview on Israel Radio this morning, Minister Uzi Landau noted that President Bush's statements have no standing as a permanent American commitment. Landau listed a series of previous American presidential commitments that have not been honored - including a promised ban on the deployment of American made Saudi F-15s in Tabuk near Eilat. President Bush made a veiled reference to the limits that there are to his statements during the press conference last night when he remarked that "when you have a government where the person is bigger than the institutions, that government will inevitably fail....

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is slated to debate Likud Minister Uzi Landau in two debates on his retreat plan organized by Sharon's team to be held in Haifa and Holon prior to the Likud May 2 referendum. Landau reportedly wanted to hold more than two debates, but Sharon's office refused. Uzi Landau, born 1943 in Haifa, is a systems analyst by profession and holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Technion in Haifa. He has been an MK since 1984. In the last election Landau was #10 on the Likud list...

Oct. 8, 2003 Rabbinical courts transferred to 'secular' Justice Ministry By HERB KEINON The cabinet voted to dismantle the Religious Affairs Ministry Wednesday and transfer authority over the rabbinical courts to the Justice Ministry headed by Shinui leader Yosef Lapid, a move that infuriated the National Religious Party and triggered a coalition crisis. The NRP, which threatened to leave the government over the issue, wants the Chief Rabbinate and the rabbinical courts to remain united and come under the purview of the Prime Minister's Office, in order to keep them out of Lapid's administrative orbit. The NRP faction decided Wednesday...