Ram Ben-Barak

Ram "Rami" Ben-Barak (Hebrew: רָם (רָמִי) בֶּן־בָּרָק, born 1 April 1958) is a former member of the Israeli security forces and an Israeli politician. He served as deputy director of the Mossad and director general of the Ministry of Intelligence Services and the Ministry of Strategic Affairs.

Ram Ben-Barak
Ben-Barak in February 2018
Date of birth (1958-04-01) 1 April 1958
Place of birthNahalal, Israel
Knessets21, 22, 23
Faction represented in Knesset
2019–2020Blue and White
2020–Yesh Atid

He has served as a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid since April 2019.

Early life

Barak was born and raised in Nahalal, Israel, to a Jewish family. In 1976 he joined the IDF and served as a combat soldier and as an officer in the Sayeret Matkal commando unit. In his last position he served as commander of the Counter Terrorism Division until his release in 1981.

Career

In 1984 he joined Mossad. In April 1991, he was arrested in Cyprus along with three other agents of the Mossad, posing as tourists during the operation to install listening devices at the Iranian embassy in Nicosia. They were convicted of trespassing, fined and returned to Israel. From 2009 to 2011 he served as deputy head of the Mossad. He was loaned to the IDF and served as coordinator of special operations.

He served as an advisor to the Israeli Embassy in Washington and a visiting research fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.

On 15 January 2018, he announced he was joining the Yesh Atid party.[1]

From November 2018 until he entered Israeli politics in April 2019, he was a member of the advisory board of Shibumi, an international business intelligence firm that was founded by veterans from Israel’s intelligence community.[2]

Additionally, from January 2018 served as the chairman of the board at "Eye-Minders".[3]

Ben-Barak has served as a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid since April 2019.

References
  1. "Ex-deputy Mossad chief joins centrist Yesh Atid party". The Times of Israel. 15 January 2018.
  2. "Shibumi Strategy Ltd".
  3. "Eye-Minders | Cedibility Assessment | Threat & Deception Detection". Eye-Minders. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
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