Israeli minister says end of Assad would be ‘blessing,’ calls for pressure on Iran

[…] Barak spoke on the final day of the three-day World Policy Conference in Vienna, which also showed that relations between Turkey and Israel remain strained following last year’s Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla that killed eight Turkish citizens and a Turkish-American.The annual conference aims to bring together policy makers from different sectors to debate some of the world’s more pressing concerns and attempt to advance solutions. […]