Ehud Barak

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Ehud Barak

Prime Minister of Israel

Male

Born Feb 12, 1942

Age 71

Hometown Mandate Palestine

Political Party Independence

Religion Judaism

Alma Mater Leland Stanford J...

Other Names Brog, Ehud

Ehud Barak is an Israeli politician who served as Prime Minister from 1999 to 2001. He was leader of the Labor Party until January 2011 and holds the posts of Minister of Defense and Deputy Prime Minister in Binyamin Netanyahu's government. He is a graduate… Read More

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Pacino, Papandreou, Panetta, Paulson: Welcome To Salt 2013
Reuters.com - Apr 08, 2013

The SkyBridge Alternatives Conference – the annual hedge fund blowout better known as SALT, is a month away. And the official agenda for the three-day bacchanal, which sees thousands of hedge fund investors, allocators and hedge fund hangers-on descend on Las Vegas in the second week of May, has been released. Many regular SALT-goers will tell you, of course, that as the event has grown in popularity its official agenda has become but one part of the conference. A sideshow to goings-on ins...
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Dan Raviv: An Honest Letter Could Help Free Israel's Spy In The Us
Huffington Post - Mar 24, 2013

Although there was no mention of Jonathan Pollard -- the American who spied for Israel and was sentenced to life in prison -- during President Barack Obama's visit to Israel, Israeli leaders did call on Obama to release Pollard. And Obama refused. Pollard was the civilian intelligence analyst for the U.S. Navy who was arrested in Washington in 1985 and convicted of supplying Israeli spyhandlers with a vast quantity of classified documents and satellite photographs. Sentenced to...
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Israeli Premier Names New Defense Minister
Fox News - Mar 17, 2013

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appointed former military chief Moshe Yaalon as defense minister. Yaalon, widely known by his nickname "Bogie," has said the Iranian nuclear program is Israel's top security concern. He also is known to hold hard-line views toward the Palestinians. Yaalon was Israel's military chief from 2002 to 2005, and served as vice premier in Israel's outgoing government. In that position, he served in Netanyahu's security Cabin...
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Alon Ben Meir: The Prospect For Peace Must Trump Potential Failure
Huffington Post - Mar 15, 2013

President Obama's foray into the Middle East may well provide him the last opportunity to advance the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, which is central to the region's stability. Having failed in his effort during his first term to forge peace between Israel and the Palestinians, the president may not want to invest significant political capital to seek a solution to an intractable conflict with an uncertain outcome. That said, the raging conflicts throughout the Middle East -- th...
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1942 Birth He was born on 12 February 1942 in kibbutz Mishmar HaSharon in Israel. … Read More

TEENAGE

1959 17 Years Old Barak joined the Israel Defense Forces (I.D.F.) in 1959. … Read More

THIRTIES

1972 30 Years Old During his service as a commando in the elite Sayeret Matkal, Barak led several highly acclaimed operations, such as: "Operation Isotope", the rescue mission to free the hostages onboard Sabena Flight 571 at Lod Airport in 1972; the 1973 covert mission Operation Spring of Youth in Beirut, in which he was disguised as a woman in order to assassinate members of the Palestine Liberation Organization; Barak was also a key architect of the June 1976 Operation Entebbe, another rescue mission to free the hostages of the Air France aircraft hijacked by terrorists and forced to land at the Entebbe Airport in Uganda. … Read More

FORTIES

1988 46 Years Old It has been alluded that Barak also masterminded the Tunis Raid on 16 April 1988, in which PLO leader Abu Jihad was assassinated. … Read More

1991 49 Years Old He served as Chief of the General Staff between 1 April 1991 and 1 January 1995. … Read More

FIFTIES

1992 50 Years Old In 1992 he was also awarded the Legion of Merit (Commander) by the United States.

1995 53 Years Old 1 More Event

On 7 July 1995 Barak was appointed Minister of Internal Affairs by Yitzhak Rabin.

1996 54 Years Old 1 More Event

He was elected to the Knesset on the Labor Party list in 1996, and served as a member of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

1999 57 Years Old 2 More Events

In the 1999 Prime Ministerial election, Barak beat Binyamin Netanyahu by a wide margin. … Read More

LATE ADULTHOOD

2003 61 Years Old Barak divorced Nava in August 2003.

2005 63 Years Old In 2005, Barak announced his return to Israeli politics, and ran for leadership of the Labor Party in November. … Read More

2006 64 Years Old 1 More Event

After Peres lost the race to Amir Peretz and left the Labor party, Barak announced he would stay at the party, despite his shaky relationship with its newly elected leader. He declared, however, that he would not run for a spot on the Labor party's Knesset list for the March 2006 elections. … Read More

2007 65 Years Old 6 More Events

In January 2007 Barak launched a bid to recapture the leadership of the Labor party in a letter acknowledging "mistakes" and "inexperience" during his tenure as Prime Minister.

2008 66 Years Old During December 2008 through January 2009, Barak led (as defense minister) Operation Cast Lead. … Read More

2011 69 Years Old 2 More Events

… He was leader of the Labor Party until January 2011 and holds the posts of Minister of Defense and Deputy Prime Minister in Binyamin Netanyahu's government. … Read More

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