Clinton brought Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat together at Camp David.

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak described the adopted Fatah platform as not very promising.

The leader of the commando team that conducted the operations was Ehud Barak.

Although five candidates announced their intention to run, the three representing minor parties ( Benny Begin of Herut – The National Movement, Azmi Bishara of Balad and Yitzhak Mordechai of the Centre Party ) dropped out before election day, and Ehud Barak beat Netanyahu in the election.

In 2000, after Yasser Arafat rejected the offer made to him by Ehud Barak based on the two-state solution and declined to negotiate for a more favorable offer, it became clear that Arafat would not make a deal with Israel unless it included the full Palestinian right of return, which would demographically destroy the Jewish character of the State of Israel.

In January 2008 Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak met with former Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Thani in Switzerland, at the Davos Economic Forum.

He disagreed strongly with the Labour governments of 1992 – 1996 ( led by Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres ) and 1999 – 2001 ( Ehud Barak ), however, he looked favourably on the Netanyahu government of 1996 – 1999 and supported it from the outside.

Arafat with Ehud Barak and Bill Clinton at 2000 Camp David Summit | Camp David Summit, 2000

Arafat continued negotiations with Netanyahu's successor, Ehud Barak, at the Camp David 2000 Summit in July 2000.

After the September 2000 outbreak of the Second Intifada, negotiations continued at the Taba summit in January 2001 ; this time, Ehud Barak pulled out of the talks to campaign in the Israeli elections.

* July 13 – July 25 – Israel's prime minister Ehud Barak and PLO head Yasser Arafat meet at Camp David, but fail to reach an agreement.

Israel's prime minister Ehud Barak and PLO head Yasser Arafat with the president of the United States Bill Clinton at 2000 Camp David Summit | Camp David Summit, 2000

* February 12 – Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel

In 1997 he did not seek re-election as Labor Party leader and was replaced by Ehud Barak.

It was only when Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak met Algerian President Abdalziz Bouteflika at the funeral of the Moroccan King Hassan the second on July 25, 1999 that comments about rapprochment were made.

When the king died in 1999, then-prime minister Ehud Barak and the Moroccan-born foreign minister David Levy flew to Rabat for his funeral.

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak met with his Russian counterpart, Anatoly Serdyukov and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, and signed the agreement during a ceremony in Moscow.

Kibbutz-born Ehud Barak was Prime Minister from 1999 to 2001, and David Ben-Gurion lived most of his life in Tel Aviv, but joined Kibbutz Sde Boker in the Negev after resigning as Prime Minister in 1953.

; 1999: Ehud Barak elected Prime Minister of Israel.

In 1972 stun grenades were used to capture the hijacked Sabena Flight 571, allowing the Israeli forces headed by Ehud Barak and including Benjamin Netanyahu to storm the plane and take it over within 10 minutes while capturing two terrorists and killing Ali Taha, the leader of the terrorist group and his aide, while rescuing all passengers ( three were wounded, and one died of her injuries several days later ).

Ehud Barak (,, Ihood Barak ; born Ehud Brog on 12 February 1942 ) is an Israeli politician who served as Prime Minister from 1999 to 2001.

Ehud Barak and Condoleezza Rice ( 2007 )

In September 1999, it was the first non-Israeli newspaper to publish an interview with Ehud Barak during his term as Prime Minister of Israel.

* Live interview with Ehud Segev for Good News Broadcast

* In an interview in 2008 Ehud Barak, the Israeli defense minister and former prime minister said that " Jews know that they can land on their feet in any corner of the world.

However, the parties were unable to come to an agreement due to President Bill Clinton's failure to consult with the Syrian President, Hafez al-Assad during the negotiating process, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's backtracking on the issue of the northeastern shore of Lake Tiberias and Syria's nonnegotiable demand that Israel withdraw to the positions it held on 4 June 1967.

A number of Israeli archaeologists, however, accused the Waqf of destroying building material dating from the First Temple Period in Jerusalem, while Ehud Olmert, the mayor of the city at that time, alleged that any construction on the Temple Mount without the supervision of Israeli authorities undermined Israel's claims to the religious complex.

Less than a year afterward, Netanyahu's coalition collapsed, resulting in the 1999 election and Labour's Ehud Barak winning the premiership on a platform of immediate settlement of final status issues.

" He wrote that on 19 April 2006, following the elections in Israeli but before Ehud Olmert was sworn in, he met with Abbas and Abbas requested that negotiations resume immediately with the new Israeli government and that he be put in touch right away with a contact person to be appointed by the prime minister.

On 2 March 2008, Abbas stated he was suspending peace talks with Israel, while Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vowed to press on with military operations against militants who have been launching home-made rockets into southern Israel.

On 4 June 2006 Ehud Olmert announced he would meet Mahmoud Abbas to resume talks on the Road map.

In a talk scheduled minutes after Katsav's speech, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called on him to resign from the presidency.

In April 1948, the Haganah prepared an initial blueprint for an operation called " Ehud ", which provided for attacks on Kabri, al Nahar, al-Bassa and Zib for " the destruction of the gangs the menfolk, the destruction of property.

Later on 12 July Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called the captures an " act of war " warranting a " severe and harsh response " and threatened to " turn Lebanon's clock back 20 years.

The event caused a storm of criticism on both sides, as interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert accused them of inciting the crowd to attack the police, while they accused Olmert and the police of reckless use of force.

Some media analysts had suggested that then Prime Minister Ehud Olmert may have been able to convince the rabbi to sign on to further unilateral actions by the government if concerted efforts toward negotiation failed.

Ehud was sent to the Moabite King Eglon on the pretext of delivering the Israelites ' annual tribute.

For example, in 2006 when Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had a severe stroke, Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert assumed power on the basis that he was " acting for " the incapacitated Sharon.

It won 6 seats in the Israeli legislative election, 1999, gaining two ministerial posts, but left the government on 11 July 2000 in response to suggestions that Prime Minister Ehud Barak's negiotations with the Palestinians would result in a division of Jerusalem.

The report claimed that Ehud Barak led a seaborne command center on a navy missile boat off the shore of Tunis that oversaw al-Wazir's assassination.

Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak was criticized in Israel by the Jewish settler movement on the grounds that his decision to withdraw without consulting his SLA allies led to the speed and confusion of its collapse.

In July 2001, the Israeli authorities destroyed 14 homes under construction in Shuafat on the orders of then mayor Ehud Olmert, who said the structures were built without procuring permits.

Hebrew University Professor Ehud Netzer reported on May 8, 2007 that he had discovered the tomb of Herod, above tunnels and water pools at a flattened site halfway up the hill to Herodium, south of Jerusalem, at the precise location given by Josephus in his writings.