Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has named his new movement the Israel Democratic Party as he bids to make his political comeback.
The former IDF chief of staff, who led the country from 1999 to 2001, will attempt to wrest power from Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud when Israel goes to the polls for a second time this year in September.
New elections were called when Mr Netanyahu was unable to put together a governing coalition following the April vote.
Mr Barak, 77, said over the weekend that the state of Israel was “at a moment before the total dissolution of Israeli democracy. Now is the time to return hope and courage to Israel, to unite and return Israel to the right track. “
