Ehud Barak Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

If I were a Palestinian of the right age, I'd eventually join one of the terrorist organizations.

Iran poses the most serious long-term threat to regional stability.

We must make sure that Iraq never reemerges as a nuclear phoenix from the ashes.

We want peace, but not at any price.

Trivia

He commanded a tank battalion in the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

Ehud: I imagine that if I were a Palestinian of the right age, I would, at some stage, have joined one of the terror organizations.

He was the Leader of the Labor party from 1999 to 2001.

He was succeeded by Ariel Sharon as Prime Minister.

From 1983 to 1985 he was the Director of Aman, the highest office in the Israeli Defense Force.

In 1995 he was Israels Minister of the Interior.

He has a master's degree in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University in California.

He has a bachelors degree in Physics and Mathematics which he earned from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.