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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 * Boaz Barak (born 1974), Israeli-American computer scientist * 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 * Ronald Barak (born 1943), American Olympic gymnast * Valia Barak (born 1969), Peruvian journalist * William Barak (1824–1903), last traditional elder of the Wurundjeri-willam clan in Australia * Ze'ev Barak, a pen name of Wolf Blitzer (born 1948), a German-American writer and TV news anchor * (1974—2012), Israeli model and pornographic actor See also *Barac (other) *Barack (other) *B-R-K *B-R-Q {{surname, Barak Hebrew-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aharon Barak
Aharon Barak ( he, אהרן ברק; born Erik Brick, 16 September 1936) is an Israeli lawyer and jurist who served as President of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1995 to 2006. Prior to this, Barak served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1978 to 1995, and before this as Attorney General of Israel from 1975 to 1978. From 1974 to 1975, Barak was Dean of the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Barak is currently a law professor at Reichman University in Herzliya, and has taught at institutions including Yale Law School, Central European University, Georgetown University Law Center, and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Early life and education Aharon Barak was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, the only son of Zvi Brick, an attorney, and his wife Leah, a teacher. After the Nazi occupation of the city in 1941, the family spent three years in the Kovno ghetto. At the end of the war, after wandering through Hungary, Austria, and Italy, Barak and his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boaz Barak
Boaz Barak (בועז ברק, born 1974) is an Israeli-American professor of computer science at Harvard University. Early life and education He graduated in 1999 with a B.Sc. in mathematics and computer science from Tel Aviv University. In 2004, he received his Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute of Science with thesis ''Non-Black-Box Techniques in Cryptography'' under the supervision of Oded Goldreich. Barak was at the Institute for Advanced Study for two years from 2003 to 2005. He was an assistant professor in the computer science department of Princeton University from 2005 to 2010 and an associate professor from 2010 to 2011. From 2010 to 2016, he was a researcher at Microsoft's New England research laboratory. Since 2016, he is the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He is a citizen of both Israel and the United States. Career He co-authored, with Sanjeev Arora, ''Computational Complexity: A Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ehud Barak
Ehud Barak ( he-a, אֵהוּד בָּרָק, Ehud_barak.ogg, link=yes, born Ehud Brog; 12 February 1942) is an Israeli general and politician who served as the tenth prime minister from 1999 to 2001. He was leader of the Labor Party until January 2011. He previously held the posts of defense minister and deputy prime minister under Ehud Olmert and then in Benjamin Netanyahu's second government from 2007 to 2013. He attempted a political comeback, running in the September 2019 Israeli legislative election as the leader of a new party that he formed. His party merged with other parties to form an alliance called the Democratic Union, but the alliance did not win enough seats for him to become a member of the Knesset. A lieutenant general in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Barak shares with two others the honor of being the most highly decorated soldier in Israel's history, having taken part in many battles and combat missions. He was appointed Chief of General Staff in 1991 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Barák
Josef Barák (26 January 1833 in Prague – 15 November 1883 in Prague) was a Czech politician, journalist, and poet. He was a member of the '' Májovci'' literary group. See also * List of Czech writers Below is an alphabetical list of Czech writers. A * Daniel Adam z Veleslavína (1546–1599), lexicographer, publisher, translator, and writer * Michal Ajvaz (born 1949), novelist and poet, magic realist * Karel Slavoj Amerling, also known ... External links 1833 births 1933 deaths Writers from Prague Czech politicians Journalists from Prague Czech poets Czech male poets Politicians from Prague {{CzechRepublic-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jindřich Barák
Jindřich Barák (born October 2, 1991, in Prague) is a Czech professional ice hockey player. He played with HC Slavia Praha in the Czech Extraliga during the 2010–11 Czech Extraliga season The 2010–11 Czech Extraliga season was the 18th season of the Czech Extraliga since its creation after the breakup of Czechoslovakia and the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League in 1993. In the regular season, HC Oceláři Třinec finished atop t .... References External links * 1991 births Czech ice hockey defencemen HC Slavia Praha players Living people Ice hockey people from Prague HK 36 Skalica players HC Stadion Litoměřice players HC Berounští Medvědi players Czech expatriate ice hockey players in Slovakia {{CzechRepublic-icehockey-defenceman-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Barak
Ronald S. Barak (born June 7, 1943) is an American gymnast. At the 1961 Maccabiah Games he won eight gold medals, one silver medal, and one bronze medal. At the 1964 NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships he won the all-around competition, the horizontal bars, and the parallel bars, and at the 1964 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) National Gymnastics Competition he was the champion in the horizontal bars. He competed in eight events at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Early and personal life Barak was born in Los Angeles, California, and is Jewish.Martin Harry Greenberg (1979''The Jewish Lists; Physicists and Generals, Actors and Writers, and Hundreds of Other Lists of Accomplished Jews''/ref> He attended Louis Pasteur Junior High School in West Los Angeles, and Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles. He then attended the University of Southern California (USC; B.S. with honors in physics, '64), and was awarded USC's Athlete of the Year Award in 1964. Barak also attended the Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valia Barak
Valia Isabel Barak Pastor (born 11 September 1969) is a Peruvian journalist and television presenter. Biography Valia Barak was born in 1969, of Russian-Jewish ancestry by her paternal grandfather. She studied at the Jaime Bausate y Meza School of Journalism at the National University of San Marcos, and graduated with a degree in psychology from Inca Garcilaso de la Vega University on 27 May 2016. She began her journalism career on Panamericana Televisión Panamericana Televisión (sometimes shortened to Panamericana and formerly known as PANTEL) is a Peruvian television network, which was founded on July 21, 1957 and had later begun its official broadcast on October 16, 1959. History Early years .... She debuted as a news presenter on the show ', which she hosted from 1998 to 2003. In 2004, Barak moved to Frecuencia Latina as the host of a new Sunday show, ''Séptimo día''. From 2005 to 2008 she hosted the central edition of '. In 2007, she presented the talk show ''Muj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Barak
William Barak, named Beruk by his parents, (1823 – 15 August 1903), the "last chief of the Yarra Yarra tribe", was the last traditional ngurungaeta (elder) of the Wurundjeri-willam clan, the pre-colonial inhabitants of present-day Melbourne, Australia. He became an influential spokesman for Aboriginal social justice and an important informant on Wurundjeri cultural lore. In his later life Barak painted and drew Wurundjeri ceremonies and carved weapons and tools. He is now considered a significant Aboriginal artist of the nineteenth century. Early life and education Barak was born in March 1823 (some sources say 1824) at Brushy Creek, near present-day Wonga Park (named after Barak's cousin Simon Wonga), at the Barngeong Birthing Site, His mother, Tooterrie, came from the Nourailum bulluk at Murchison, Victoria. His father, Bebejan (or Bebejern), was an important member, or ngurunaeta, of the Wurundjeri people. His parents named him Beruk. Barak was said to have been presen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolf Blitzer
Wolf Isaac Blitzer (born March 22, 1948) is an American journalist, television news anchor, and author who has been a CNN reporter since 1990, and who currently serves as one of the principal anchors at the network. He is the host of ''The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer'' and until 2021, served as the network's lead political anchor. Early life Blitzer was born in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany near Munich in 1948, during post-World War II Allied occupation the son of Cesia Blitzer (née Zylberfuden), a homemaker, and David Blitzer, a home builder. His parents were Polish Jewish refugees from German-occupied Poland who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp; his grandparents, two uncles, and two aunts on his father's side were all murdered there. Blitzer and his family immigrated to the United States under the provisions of the 1948 Displaced Persons Act. He was raised in Buffalo, New York, and graduated from Kenmore West Senior High School. He received a Bachelor of Arts in hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barac (other) , village in Hungary
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Barac may refer to: * Barak, a 12th Century BC ruler and judge of Ancient Israel * Romanian Mioritic Shepherd Dog, aka ''Barac'' * Caves of Barać, in Croatia People * Antun Barac (1894–1955), Croatian historian * Fran Barac (1872–1940), Croatian theologian and politician * Ioan Barac (1776–1848), Romanian poet * Jakub Barac (born 1996), Czech footballer * Valér Barač (1909–1991), Slovak athlete * See also * Barak (other) * Baraq (other) * Barack (other) * Baracs Baracs is a village in Fejér county, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barack (other)
Barack Obama is an American attorney who served as President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. Barack may also refer to: * Barack (name), including a list of people with the name * Barack (brandy), a Hungarian apricot brandy See also * * Barac (other) * Baraq (other) * Barak (other) Barak was a military general in the Book of Judges in the Bible. Barak may also refer to: People * Barak (given name) * Barak (surname) ** Ehud Barak (born 1942), Israeli politician * Barak (Guantanamo captive 856), an Afghan detainee at Guant ... * Barrack (other) * Buraq (other) * Burack (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
B-R-K
Barack, also spelled Barak or Baraq, is a given name of Arabic origin. From the Semitic root ''B-R-K'', it means "blessed" and is most commonly used in its feminine form ''Baraka(h)''. The Semitic root ''B-R-K'' has the original meaning of "to kneel down", with a secondary meaning "to bless". In Islamic mysticism, ''Barakah'' ( ar, بركة ) is a concept of spiritual presence or revelation. The cognate Hebrew term is ''Berakhah'' (בְּרָכָה) "benediction, blessing" which is related to the Biblical Hebrew given name Baruch (). It can also be derived from the root ''B-R-Q'' ( he, ב-ר-ק; ar, ب-ر-ق ), meaning "lightning". The Arabic masculine given name Mubarak is the Arabic stem III passive participle, ' (), meaning "blessed (one)". The name is cognate with the Amharic given name ብሩክ ("Biruk"). People with the given name * Barack Adama (born 1985), a French rapper * Barack Obama (b. 1961), former US president * Barack Obama Sr. (1936-1982), father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
