As Israel’s 10th prime minister and last from the Labor Party from 1999 to 2001, Barak ended the occupation of southern Lebanon, participated in the 2000 Camp David talks, was rebuffed by Yasser Arafat in making a peace deal under the Clinton Parameters, and saw the Second Intifada begin. Israel’s most decorated soldier, notably for his time leading a tank battalion during the Yom Kippur War as well as his work as a commando, Barak was the IDF chief of staff from 1991 to 1995 and defense minister from 2007 to 2013.
