05.03.2012                      11.Adar. 5772

Innenpolitik:

Ashkenazi, Barak trade fire over Harpaz report

Defense minister says he's satisfied by the report, a sentiment Ashkenazi calls "premature and very exaggerated".

A draft report by State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss into the Harpaz Affair and the dire state of relations between former IDF chief of staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Gabi Ashkenazi and Defense Minister Ehud Barak sparked a new war of words between the two men on Sunday.
The report slammed the conduct of Ashkenazi, but also criticized Barak over a disturbing feud that developed between the two most senior defense figures in the country at the time….