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Ehud Barak ( Hebrew: אהוד ברק) (born February 12th, 1942) was the 10th Prime Minister of Israel from 1999 to 2001.Barak joined the Israel Defense Forces in 1959 and served for 35 years, rising to the rank of Lieutenant General, the highest in the Israeli military. Barak was awarded the "Distinguished Service Medal" and four other citations for courage and operational excellence. Meanwhile, Barak earned his bachelor's degree in Physics and Mathematics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1976, and his master's degree in Engineering-Economic Systems in 1978 from Stanford UniversityFor other meanings of Stanford see Stanford (disambiguation). Stanford University is a privately funded university in Stanford, California. It is located approximately 35 miles southeast of San Francisco, in an unincorporated part of Santa Clara County ad in Palo AltoPalo Alto is a city in Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, USA. Palo Alto is located at the northern end of the Silicon Valley, and is home to Stanford University (which is technically located in an adjacent area — Stanford, C, CaliforniaCalifornia is a state located in the western United States, bordering the Pacific Ocean. The most populous and third largest state in the U. California is both physically and demographically diverse. The state's official nickname is "The Golden State", wh, United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in.
In politics, he served as Minister of the Interior ( 19951995 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). It has a Golden number of 1, and was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995- 2005): http://www. org/culture/indigenous . Events January events Ja) and Minister of Foreign Affairs ( 19951995 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). It has a Golden number of 1, and was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995- 2005): http://www. org/culture/indigenous . Events January events Ja- 19961996 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty''. Events January January 5 Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone Jan). He was elected to the KnessetThe Knesset (, Hebrew for "assembly") is the Parliament of Israel. As the legislative branch of the Israeli government, the Knesset enacts laws, supervises the work of the government, and has the power to vote to remove the President of the State and the in 19961996 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty''. Events January January 5 Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone Jan, where he served as a member of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. In 1996 Barak became the leader of the Labor Party.
Ehud Barak was elected Prime Minister of Israel on May 17th, 1999 and completed his term on March 7th, 2001 after his loss to Ariel Sharon in a February special election for prime minister.
Barak's term as prime minister had several notable events, most of them controversial:
- Forming a coalition with the Haredi party Shas, after Barak promised an end to "corruption" sponsored by religious parties.
- Meretz quits the coalition after they failed to agree on the powers to be given to a Shas deputy-minister in the Ministry of Education.
- The withdrawal from south Lebanon.
- The kidnapping of the bodies of three killed Israeli soldiers by Hizbullah, aided by local UN peacekeeping force.
- Peace negotiations with Syria.
- The passing of the Tal Law which gives a legal statute for Haredi Jews' exemption from military service.
- The Camp David 2000 Summit which meant to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but failed. Barak and US president Bill Clinton put the blame on Yasser Arafat. Barak claimed he exposed "Arafat's true intentions". Later, Barak was blamed by Israeli left wing politicians that he killed the Israeli peace movement by presenting Arafat as a "peace refuser".
- The eruption of the al-Aqsa Intifada.
- The killing of 13 Israeli-Arabs by police and one Jewish Israeli civilian by an Arab mob, in October 2000 Riots.
