The planned cabinet meeting on a deal with Hamas, which would see the abducted IDF soldier set free, followed days of intense negotiations.

Netanyahu and his top ministers, known as the Forum of Eight, help two secret, lengthy meetings in the last two days in which ministers were updated of the deal’s details.

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	Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak
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