Editing Ehud Barak (section)

==Early life and family==
[[File:EHUD BARAK - FAMILY.jpg|thumb|left|Barak (behind, second from left) with his family in 1964]]
Ehud Barak was born on [[kibbutz]] [[Mishmar HaSharon]] in what was then [[Mandatory Palestine]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Warrior, Military Strategist and Peacemaker |url=https://www.achievement.org/achiever/ehud-barak/#interview |access-date=3 April 2019 |work=Academy of Achievement |date=4 May 2001}}</ref> He is the eldest of four sons of Esther (née Godin; 25 June 1914 – 12 August 2013) and Yisrael Mendel Brog (24 August 1910 – 8 February 2002).{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}

His paternal grandparents, Frieda and Reuven Brog, were murdered in [[Pušalotas]] (Pushelat) in northern [[Lithuania]] (then ruled by the [[Russian Empire]]) in 1912, leaving his father orphaned at the age of two. Barak's maternal grandparents, Elka and Shmuel Godin, died at the [[Treblinka extermination camp]] during [[the Holocaust]].<ref>[https://news.un.org/en/story/2011/02/366432 At special ceremony, UN pays tribute to victims of Holocaust ''UN News'' 10 February 2011]</ref>

Ehud [[Hebraization of surnames|hebraized]] his family name from "Brog" to "Barak" in 1972. It was during his military service that he met his future wife, [[Nava Barak-Singer|Nava]] (née Cohen, born 8 April 1947 in [[Tiberias]]). They had three daughters together: Michal (born 9 August 1970), Yael (born 23 October 1974) and Anat (born 16 October 1981). He has grandchildren.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mako.co.il/weekend-articles/Article-aa3dd3bda2b2441006.htm|title=טייקון בהתהוות: איך זה שלאהוד ברק יש כל כך הרבה כסף?|date=13 February 2014}}</ref> Barak divorced Nava in August 2003. On 30 July 2007, Barak married Nili Priel (born 25 April 1944) in a small ceremony in his private residence. In his spare time, Barak enjoys reading works by writers such as [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Weitz |first=Gidi |date=9 May 2011 |url=http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/peace-politics-and-patek-philippe-an-interview-with-ehud-barak-1.360701 |title=Peace, politics, and Patek Philippe: An interview with Ehud Barak |newspaper=[[Haaretz]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131127123751/http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/peace-politics-and-patek-philippe-an-interview-with-ehud-barak-1.360701|archive-date=27 November 2013 |url-status=live |access-date=14 March 2013}}</ref> and he is a classical pianist, with many years of study behind him.

Barak earned his [[bachelor's degree]] in [[physics]] and [[mathematics]] from the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]] in 1968, and his master's degree in engineering-economic systems in 1978 from [[Stanford University]], [[California]].{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}