# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ehud-barak
# Generated: 2026-08-31T19:37:18.291Z

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description: "Israel's most decorated soldier turned prime minister, led the 2000 Camp David talks that nearly ended the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — and watched his government collapse when they failed."
tagline: "10th Prime Minister of Israel"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Ehud Brog on kibbutz Mishmar Hasharon in 1942, his maternal grandparents were murdered in the Holocaust. He entered the Israel Defense Forces in 1959 and rose through 35 years of operations — the 1972 "Operation Isotope," the covert 1973 Lebanon raid, the 1976 Entebbe rescue — becoming Chief of the General Staff in 1991 and earning the distinction of Israel's most highly decorated soldier. He moved into politics in 1995 as interior minister under Yitzhak Rabin, then foreign minister after Rabin's assassination. Elected Labor leader in 1997, he won the prime ministership in 1999 — Israel's most recent left-wing premier. He withdrew forces from Southern Lebanon in 2000 and pursued the Camp David Summit that same year, but his coalition frayed amid October protests and he lost reelection in 2001. He spent years in business, returned as defense minister under Olmert and Netanyahu from 2007 to 2013 — leading Operation Cast Lead in 2008–09 — and formed the Independence party in 2011. He retired in 2012, attempted a comeback in 2019 with the Israel Democratic Party, but the Democratic Union alliance fell short of seats.