Ehud Barak, Israel’s 10th Prime Minister, is the single most decorated soldier in the country’s history. During his 36 years in uniform, he went on to become the head of Israeli Military Intelligence, Deputy Chief of General Staff and Chief of Staff. As Prime Minister, he ended Israel’s two-decade military entanglement in Lebanon, and then came closer than any other leader to securing a full and final peace with Syria’s Hafez al-Assad and PLO chairman Yasir Arafat.