Ehud Barak is an Israeli military and political leader born in Palestine. Currently, he is the leader of the highly successful Atzmaut liberal party.
Unfortunately, Ehud's career does not allow to completely declassify the biography of this person, so there is little information about him in open sources.
Family and early years
So, the future military man was born in Palestine on February 12, 1942. Together with his parents - repatriates from Lithuania and Poland - Esther and Israel Brog, he lived in kibbutz Mishmar ha-Sharon (transl. Sharon Guard).
Even then, the boy had a peculiar sense of humor. The most vivid memory is connected with this moment, which Ehud Barak himself spoke about in one of the interviews. Then the British scoured the houses in search of clandestine arms depots, including explosives. During the search, the boy led the soldiers to the pomegranate tree. Apparently, his joke was taken for childish spontaneity, so they released him unharmed.
But Ehud continued to bring only problems to his parents. Brog (real name) was a quarrelsome and stubborn child. The knowledge that the school offered was not interesting to him, so the boyconstantly accused of laziness and slovenliness. This led to the fact that by the end of the 11th grade, the teachers literally did not want to see him, although they did not kick him out or leave him for the second year. He was simply banned from attending school.
As a result, Ehud Barak, whose biography is discussed in this article, passed the exams externally and much later than the others. However, the teachers' accusations turned out to be groundless - much later, already being an officer, the young man brilliantly graduated from two departments at the universities of Jerusalem and the USA.
Anti-terrorism unit
In 1961, the young man enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). There, Brog's stubbornness played a decisive role: at the cost of enormous efforts, the young man was able to break into the Sayeret Matkal anti-terrorist unit. The fighters of this group risked their lives daily, but this is what attracted the future general.
Ehud Barak quickly became the unit commander's favorite. It got to the point that all planned operations were thought out taking into account the personal characteristics of the young man. It was Ehud's great joy to know that his efforts were not in vain. Each exhausting training, constant exercises, successfully completed tactical tasks brought him closer to the level of experienced comrades, because initially he was just a "green" youth.
Training of basic skills took place in Arab villages. Night forays into such dangerous territory, where any more or less different person aroused suspicion, helped the special forces to improve their skillsdisguise.
Further career
At the moment, Ehud Barak is the only soldier who has completed both scout school and infantry training. The young man did not plan to quit his service in the special forces, and after the expiration of the main term he signed a new contract. He no longer imagined his life without military affairs, especially since now he headed the post of deputy commander of a special operations unit. It was in this position that the young man showed himself "in all its glory".
Even during the "six-day war", Barak's group managed to prove itself and capture the enemy base, despite the fact that they were everywhere ahead of the Air Force and tank detachments. Ehud Barak rushed into every hot spot in Israel, as a result of which he earned a considerable promotion: at the age of 37, the man became the youngest general in the IDF.
Further, Barak's career developed at lightning speed: in 1982, Ehud headed AMAN, and in 1991 he already took over as chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces. In this position, Barak stayed until the 95th year.
Politics
After his resignation, the man went into politics, especially since he was a coveted trophy in many Israeli parties. Within a year, Ehud had risen from the post of interior minister to the leader of the Labor organization. In the elections of 1999, he defeated the former prime minister of the country and took his place. Barak did a lot for Israel, including trying to resolve the Middle East conflict, but failed. Then he lost his post, losing the electionAriel Sharon.
Six years the man was retired, refusing political and military activities. But on June 12, 2007, he again took up the post of leader of Labor, but due to the declining number of mandates issued by the Knesset, he soon left the organization. At the moment, Ehud Barak, whose photo is presented above, is the leader of the Atzmaut party.
Private life
Ehud married twice. He met his first wife in 1968 and lived with her for 34 years. From this marriage, the man has three daughters: Michael, Yael, Anat. In 2003, the couple could not stand the growing tension in their relationship and divorced, although Naava sacrificed a lot for her husband.
in 2007, Ehud got married again. This time, Nili Priel became his wife. Their marriage is still quite strong, and the ex-general himself claims that he was in love with a woman in his youth.
