Israel’s Labor Party candidate for prime minister said he welcomed the completion of a state inquiry into a 1992 army training accident in which five commandos were killed and six other injured. Ehud Barak, who was army chief of staff at the time, has been dogged by allegations that he hurriedly left the scene of the accident without attempting to help the injured.
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