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Nava Barak

Nava Barak-Singer is an Israeli educator and social activist who was the wife of Prime Minister Ehud Barak and is president of the Elem Association.

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Born: 8 April 1947, Tiberias
Occupation: manager
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Nava Barak was born in 1947 in Tiberias

Nava Cohen was born on 8 April 1947 in Tiberias. Her father managed a Bank Leumi branch and her mother worked for the Jewish Agency. She served in the IDF Intelligence Corps.

She studied English and Arabic literature at the Hebrew University, where she met Ehud Barak in 1968. They married in 1969 and had three daughters. She then taught English at a middle school in Kfar Saba.

While her husband was prime minister from 1999 to 2001, she took no official role and volunteered with youth programs. She has led the Elem Association for Youth at Risk since 1996. She also chaired the Friends of the Rabin Medical Center Association and helped groups such as the Israel Cancer Association.

She and Ehud Barak separated in 2003. In 2009 she married the businessman Shalom Singer.