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Ehud Barak

Ehud Barak served as Israeli Prime Minister from 1999 to 2001, and the as the country’s armed forces Chief of Staff. He was Minister of Defense in the governments of Ehud Olmert and Benjamin Netanyahu.

  • Barack Obama is briefed by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on the strategic balance of power in the Middle East as they sit in an Israeli Air Force helicopter before taking off for the southern town of Sderot on July 23, 2008 from a helipad in Jerusalem.
    Barack Obama is briefed by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on the strategic balance of power in the Middle East as they sit in an Israeli Air Force helicopter before taking off for the southern town of Sderot on July 23, 2008 from a helipad in Jerusalem.
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    Obama and the Iranian Nuclear Threat

    In an excerpt from Ehud Barak’s ‘My Country, My Life,’ the former defense minister discloses the debate over Israel’s attack plan, and a fateful conversation with President Barack Obama

    byEhud Barak
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