(Photograph) - ISRAEL: Arms and the man: children of the small Arab town of Kfar Manda, Israel, wait for an election visit from Ehud Barak, the then opposition leader, days before his Labour party’s shock land-slide victory ousted Binyamin Netanyahu. Promising to spend on “education not settlements”, Mr Barak’s manifesto included an extra two years’ free education for the under fives. Photograph: Reuters