Ehud Barak

Editor's Notes: Israel just met the America that comes after Trump - comment

Here is a bet you can hold me to. The respect from the US lasts. The protection that used to come with it does not, and it gets tested before the year is out, probably in Lebanon.

US VICE President JD Vance and President Donald Trump listen to Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the White House, April 23, 2026, during an earlier round of talks. Trump leads now; Vance and Rubio are next. Israel was in the room as an ambassador, not a principal.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to then-defense minister Ehud Barak during a session at the Knesset in 2009.

Middle Israel: Netanyahu's real legacy is Israel's era of political decay - opinion

Former prime minister Ehud Barak attends a conference held by the Movement for Quality Government in Tel Aviv, January 28, 2026.

Ehud Barak criticizes Netanyahu's Lebanon war policies, calls Bennett, Eisenkot 'superior' PMs

Former prime minister Ehud Barak attends a conference held by the Movement for Quality Government in Tel Aviv, January 28, 2026.

Netanyahu's Iran expectations are 'far from reality,' former PM Ehud Barak says


Former PM Ehud Olmert mentioned as one of Jeffrey Epstein's associates in case documents

This is the first time that Olmert has been linked to Epstein. Other names mentioned in the documents include US President Donald Trump and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

 FORMER PRIME MINISTERS Ehud Olmert and Ehud Barak attend a memorial ceremony, marking the 26th anniversary of the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, in 2021.

Israeli cannabis co. InterCure raises NIS 66m. for damaged Nir Oz facility

InterCure facility at Kibbutz Nir Oz damaged in October 7 attacks to be rehabilitated.

 Kibbutz Nir Oz after the massacre

'Ethical' Israeli cyber firm Paragon set for $900m. US acquisition

If Paragon deal goes through, $500 million will be split among 400 employees and 5 entrepreneurs.

Projection of cyber code on hooded man (llustrative)

Israel’s next target: Former PM Ehud Barak says Israel likely to attack Iranian oil industry

“Israel has a compelling need, even an imperative, to respond. I think that no sovereign nation on Earth could fail to respond,” Barak said.

 Illustrative photo of Ehud Barak in front a general view of fire at an oil refinery in Birjand, Iran.

Ehud Barak blames Netanyahu for strategic failures leading to October 7 Hamas attack

Ehud Barak criticized Israel's government for defying High Court rulings and blamed Netanyahu for strategic failures leading up to the October 7 Hamas attack.

 Former prime minister Ehud Barak testifies during a hearing of the civil investigative committee on the October 7 massacre, in Tel Aviv, September 5, 2024

Ehud Barak to Foreign Affairs: Israel has a leadership vacuum

Former prime minister, Ehud Barak, explains Netanyahu's failures since the beginning of the war and calls both the voters and Lapid, Gantz, and Eisenkot to call for early elections.

 Ehud Barak addresses a protest against the government.

Former finance minister Avraham ‘Beiga’ Shochat dies at 87

One of the last pillars of Rabin, Peres, and Barak's Labor party, Avraham 'Beigele' Shochat, passes at the age of 87.

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Former PM Ehud Barak calls on Israelis to 'besiege the Knesset'

The former prime minister criticized the inaction and failure of Netanyahu's government to take accountability, while calling for Israelis to "protest outside the Knesset day and night."

 Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak delivers a statement in Tel Aviv, Israel June 26, 2019.

Iranian hackers leak photos of former PM Ehud Barak

"Embarrassing" photos of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak have been spreading on Iranian social media accounts.

Former Prime Minister and Labor party leader Ehud Barak talks to journalists at The Israel Project in Jerusalem

Ehud Barak: Netanyahu is 'isolated and desperate' to pass judicial reform - report

Ehud Barak referred to the judicial reform desperation as the result of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's unholy alliance government to save himself from criminal court cases.

 FORMER PRIME minister Ehud Barak attends a protest against the government’s planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, earlier this year. The sign behind him reads: ‘Germany 1933, Israel 2023, disgrace!’