Barak (surname)

Not to be confused with Barac.

Not to be confused with Barack.

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

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

References

↑ 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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