On 21 November 2005, Mofaz rejected Sharon's invitation to join his new party, Kadima, and instead announced his candidacy for the leadership of Likud.

In 2008, with Israel's then prime minister, Ehud Olmert, being pressured to resign due to corruption charges, Mofaz announced that he would run for the leadership of the Kadima party.

On 5 August 2008, Mofaz officially entered the race to be leader of Kadima.

Placed second on the Kadima list, Mofaz retained his seat in the 2009 elections, but lost his cabinet position after Likud formed the government.

On 27 March 2012, Shaul Mofaz won the Kadima party leadership primaries by a landslide, defeating party chairwoman Tzipi Livni.

Mofaz had said during the Kadima primaries that he would not join a government led by Netanyahu.

Landau and Mofaz later withdrew, the former in favour of Netanyahu and the latter to join Kadima.

* Shaul Mofaz – Former Israeli Minister of Defense, currently the chairman of the Kadima Party in the Knesset

However, despite the commission findings, Minister of Defence, Shaul Mofaz, decided to compensate the divers ' families.

Livni got 16, 936 votes, with 16, 505 votes, for Mofaz.

Israel Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz has, however, said that Hezbollah abducted the soldiers and then killed them.

:* The Israeli business newspaper Globes reported that in a meeting between the Israeli minister of transport, Shaul Mofaz and the Jordanian ambassador in Tel Aviv in November, the transport minister announced that European nations are interested in financing the construction of a Haifa-Irbid-Amman railway.

Lt. General Shaul Mofaz (, born 4 November 1948 ) is a prominent Israeli politician and the Leader of the Opposition in the Knesset.

Mofaz became the 16th IDF's Chief of the General Staff, and served as Israel's Minister of Defense, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transportation and Road Safety.

He was born in Tehran ( although his parents came from Isfahan ), Mofaz immigrated to Israel with his parents in 1957.

The Chief of Staff Gen. Shaul Mofaz ( right foreground ) meets with U. S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz ( left ), and other senior U. S. Department of Defense officials in the Pentagon

Mofaz was then appointed an infantry brigade commander for the 1982 Lebanon War.

His rapid rise continued ; in 1997 Mofaz was appointed Deputy Chief of the General Staff and in 1998 he was appointed Chief of the General Staff.

The tough tactics undertaken by Mofaz drew widespread concern from the international community but were broadly supported by the Israeli public.

Mofaz foresaw the wave of violence coming early as 1999 and prepared the IDF for intense guerrilla warfare in the territories.

Following a government crisis in 2002, Shaul Mofaz was controversially appointed Defense Minister by Ariel Sharon.

Following the elections in late March 2006, Mofaz was moved from the position of Defense Minister and received the Transport ministry in the new Cabinet installed on 4 May 2006.

Mofaz became Vice Prime Minister as part of a deal reached for a government of national unity with Binyamin Netanyahu.

Erikson has noted that, unless this trust developed early, the time ambivalence experienced, in varying degree and temporarily, by all adolescents ( as a result of their remembering the more immediate gratification of wants during childhood, while not yet having fully accepted the long-range planning required by adulthood ) may develop into a more permanent sense of time diffusion.

The new Breitkopf & Härtel and Bärenreiter make this alteration differently, but the result is a reading that is different from what was commonly accepted based on the 1864 Breitkopf edition.

These are often accepted as random selections because the number of words has not been calculated beforehand, so the result is unknown right up until someone is selected.

As a result, PEI's challenge was accepted by the federal government, and its level of federal representation was secured.

The most widely accepted of these is that of the Princeton University Dictionary which defines it as " the process of fertile land transforming into desert typically as a result of deforestation, drought or improper / inappropriate agriculture "

There is no record that Æthelberht ever accepted a continental king as his overlord and, as a result, historians are divided on the true nature of the relationship.

As a result, Halakha has developed in a somewhat different fashion from Anglo-American legal systems with a Supreme Court able to provide universally accepted precedents.

Many of these groups have developed differences in their prayers, traditions and accepted canons ; however these distinctions are mainly the result of their being formed at some cultural distance from normative ( rabbinic ) Judaism, rather than based on any doctrinal dispute.

Despite the Rhodesian Constitution of 1965 coming into effect as a result of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence, appeals continued to be accepted by the Privy Council as late as 1969 due to the fact that under international law, Rhodesia remained a UK colony.

As a result of such opposition, the recommendation was not accepted.

Although the existence of molecules has been accepted by many chemists since the early 19th century as a result of Dalton's laws of Definite and Multiple Proportions ( 1803 – 1808 ) and Avogadro's law ( 1811 ), there was some resistance among positivists and physicists such as Mach, Boltzmann, Maxwell, and Gibbs, who saw molecules merely as convenient mathematical constructs.

* A paradox which is in neither class may be an antinomy, which reaches a self-contradictory result by properly applying accepted ways of reasoning.

For example, an invocation of INSERT can be accepted but the inserted rows might not all appear in the view, or an invocation of UPDATE can result in rows disappearing from the view.

Gravity, interpreted as an innate attraction between every pair of particles of matter, was an occult quality in the same sense as the scholastics ' " tendency to fall " had been .... By the mid eighteenth century that interpretation had been almost universally accepted, and the result was a genuine reversion ( which is not the same as a retrogression ) to a scholastic standard.

Adams's finding provoked a sharp astronomical controversy that lasted some years, but the correctness of his result, agreed by other mathematical astronomers including C E Delaunay, was eventually accepted.

He concluded that the fine-tuning of the universe was too precise to be the result of chance, so accepted the existence of God.

It was already accepted that it is necessary to use rules to help you choose the right action because the problems of calculating the consequences on each and every occasion would almost certainly result in you frequently choosing something less than the best course of action.

However, Struve's initial result was actually surprisingly close to the currently accepted value of 0. 129 ″, as determined by the Hipparcos astrometry satellite.

Most people, though, accepted that it was the result of simple carelessness on the part of workers handling wheelbarrows full of live ammunition.

Hempel himself accepted the paradoxical conclusion, arguing that the reason the result appears paradoxical is because we possess prior information without which the observation of a non-black non-raven would indeed provide evidence that all ravens are black.

From this point of view, the hypothesis that " All ravens are black " is not accepted gradually, as its probability increases towards one when more and more observations are made, but is accepted in a single action as the result of evaluating the data which has already been collected.

Whereas traditionally, the basal ganglia were thought to be primarily involved in sensory-motor functions, it has now become accepted that the basal ganglia, as a result of their involvement in a set of parallel, functionally segregated basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuits, which primarily entertain the premotor and prefrontal cortical cortices, are also involved in cognitive and “ limbic ” functions.

The end result was The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, and after several rewrites, the book was accepted and published in 1982 under Penguin's children's imprint, Puffin Books.