Ehud Barak served as Israel's Prime Minister from 1999 until 2001. This photo was taken in the Prime Minister's private office in Jerusalem prior to a cabinet meeting on July 28, 1999. Barak was known for his valor as a soldier and daring anti-terrorist operations, and he rose to become IDF (Israel Defense Force) Chief of Staff. He was a Chairman of the left-of-center Labor Party and ruffled feathers with Labor colleagues when he agreed to become Defense Minister in the right-wing government of Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu in 2009. Like Netanyahu, Barak has a degree from an elite American university, Stanford, to go with another diploma from Israel's Hebrew University. In the waning days of the Clinton administration Barak, Clinton, and Yasser Arafat appeared to be close to reaching an accord at Camp David until the talks abruptly collapsed.
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