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


More information on fmr. Israeli PM's meetings with Jeffrey Epstein comes to light

According to Epstein’s calendar, he had arranged for former Prime Minister Ehud Barak to meet with Noam Chomsky, a famed critic of Israel. 

Ehud  Barak speaks at panel at the Council for Peace and Security

Jeffrey Epstein’s newly uncovered calendar reveals some interesting names

Noam Chomsky, Ehud Barak, Leon Botstein and a Rothschild are among the Jewish names listed in a newly uncovered calendar for child sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein.

Jeffrey Epstein looks on during a status hearing in his sex trafficking case, in this court sketch in New York

Likud files complaint against former PM Barak for incitement

The party filed the complaint after the former PM once again made controversial statements at a conference.

 Ehud Barak speaks at a conference of Haaretz newspaper, Zulat Institute and the New Israel Fund in Tel Aviv on February 23, 2023.

Israel's Ehud Barak compares President Herzog to Nazi appeaser

Barak compared Herzog to Chamberlain, who appeased Hitler before WW2 in response to Herzog's plans for compromise on judicial reforms.

 UK's Neville Chamberlain pictured showing the Anglo-German declaration, known as Peace for our time, in this famous photograph taken 1938

Despite banning NSO, US using other Israeli spyware cofounded by Ehud Barak - report

The DEA is using a spyware called Graphite, developed by the Israeli Paragon company, according to a new report.

 EVEN AFTER THE Cyberserve/Atraf disaster, Bennett is more afraid of overregulation than he is of lacking the power to save the private sector from its own occasional cyber laziness or cheapness.

Generals in Israeli politics are no longer hot commodities - opinion

Perhaps voters appreciate that despite Israel’s pervasive security challenges, bravery and proficiency in battle do not in themselves provide the experience for successful national leadership.

 GADI EISENKOT waves at the launch of the National Unity Party election campaign, in Tel Aviv, earlier this month.

Israel looks to increase defense cooperation with Japan - DM

In the first visit of its kind in over a decade, Defense Minister Benny Gantz will meet with several Japanese security and government officials.

 Defense Minister Benny Gantz on the first diplomatic visit to Japan since 2012.

'The Arc of Our History': Pivotal moments in Israeli history - review

Stanley Ringler engaged in the development of political support groups, political education programs, and lobbying in Israel and the US.

A CLOSE LOOK at Yitzhak Rabin’s core diplomatic and defense views, above and beyond Oslo, does the late prime minister more justice.

Ehud Barak: Too late to stop Iran's nukes with military action

Ex-PM in a column he wrote: Israel might need to operate independently as Iran's nuclear breakout "will most probably" occur when the US has its hands full

 Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak seen during media interview in Tel Aviv on September 30, 2019

Voices of the Arab press: Putin’s V-Day speech and the War in Ukraine

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

 MARKING VICTORY Day in Moscow’s Red Square