Labor party splits

Ehud Barak and four other MK's from the Labor party have split off to form their own faction in the Knesset. The faction is called Atzmaut (Independence). Barak said that the faction's agenda will be "first of all the state, then the party, then the media, and only then ourselves." He vowed that he and Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilani, Agricultural Minister Shalom Simhon, Deputy Minister of