
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak speaks to the media in Tel Aviv on Monday, Nov. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak speaks to the media in Tel Aviv on Monday, Nov. 26, 2012. Mr. Barak shook up the Israeli political system with the abrupt announcement that he is quitting politics and will not run in general elections in January. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak speaks to the media in Tel Aviv on Monday, Nov. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israeli rescue workers and paramedics carry a wounded person from the site of a bombing in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012. A bomb ripped through an Israeli bus near the nation's military headquarters in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, wounding several people, Israeli officials said. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israeli police officers examine a blown-up bus at the site of a bombing in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israeli police officers examine a blown-up bus at the site of a bombing in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, center left, and US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro, center right, speak to journalists in front of a military Iron Dome defense missile system, designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, near the costal city of Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israeli burial officials at a morgue in Jerusalem prepare the coffins of the Toulouse shooting victims for their funeral on Wednesday, March 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Naama Margolese, 8, sits with her mother, Hadassa, in their home in the central Israeli town of Beit Shemesh on Monday, Dec. 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)