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Name: Ehud Barak  
Title: 16th Prime Minister of Israel (1999-2001)

Position: Pro Two-State Solution to the question "What are the solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?"
Reasoning: "It is true that there are demographic threats to its [Israel's] existence. That is why a separation from the Palestinians is a compelling imperative. Without such a separation [into two states] there is no future for the Zionist dream."
"Camp David and After: An Exchange"
New York Times Review of Books
Volume 49, Number 10 · June 13, 2002
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Members of Congress, Ambassadors, Counsul Generals, heads of government, members of legislative bodies, and Ph.D.'s with significant involvement in, or related to, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Involvement:

  • Prime Minister of Israel, 1999-2001

  • Elected Chairman of the Labor Party, 1996

  • Elected to the Knesset, 1996

  • Served as a Member of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, 1996

  • Minister of Foreign Affairs, November 1995 - June 1996

  • Minister of the Interior, July-November 1995

  • Following the May 1994 signing of the Gaza-Jericho agreement with the Palestinians, Lt. General Barak oversaw the IDF's redeployment in the Gaza Strip and Jericho

  • Assumed the post of the 14th Chief of the General Staff and was promoted to the rank of Lt. General, the highest in the Israeli military, April 1991

  • Appointed Deputy Chief-of-Staff, May 1987

  • Appointed Commander of the IDF Central Command, January 1986

  • Appointed Head of the Intelligence Branch at the IDF General Headquarters, April 1983

  • Served as Deputy Commander of the Israeli force in Lebanon, ("Peace for Galilee" operation), 1982

  • Appointed Head of the IDF Planning Branch and promoted to Major General, January 1982

  • Tank battalion commander on the southern front in Sinai, 1973 Yom Kippur War

  • Reconnaissance group commander, 1967 Six-Day War

  • Joined the Israel Defense Forces, 1959

Education: M.Sc. 1978, Stanford University, Engineering-Economic Systems
B.Sc. 1976, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Physics and Mathematics

Affiliations/
Honors:

  • Awarded the "Distinguished Service Medal" and four other citations for courage and operational excellence

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Web Site: Israeli M.F.A. Prime Ministers - Ehud Barak

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