Barak (surname)

Barak or Barák is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Aharon Barak (born 1936), former President of the Supreme Court of Israel
  • Ehud Barak (born 1942), Israeli former Prime Minister and Minister of Defense
  • Josef Barák (1833–1883), Czech politician, journalist, and poet
  • Jindřich Barák (born 1991), Czech ice hockey player
  • Valia Barak (born 1969), Peruvian journalist
  • William Barak (1824–1903), last traditional elder of the Wurundjeri-willam clan in Australia
  • Zev Barak, pen name of Wolf Blitzer[1]

References

  1. ↑ Blitzer, Wolf. Between Washington and Jerusalem. 1985, page ix. Zev (זאב) is the Hebrew word for "wolf" and Barak (ברק) is the Hebrew word for "lightning" (which in German/Yiddish is Blitz)
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