So we visited a really nice restaurant in Tel-Aviv, Israel recently called Mantaray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I couldn\u2019t help but notice two serious plain clothes security officers, enter the restaurant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Perhaps I wouldn\u2019t have taken much notice except for the way they were checking out the place and the curly earpiece I noticed behind their left ears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And then in walked two couples who sat on a table just behind me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was then that our friends eating with us noticed who one of the four customers were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ehud Barrack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here in this lovely sea front fish restaurant sat one of Israel\u2019s most famous people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ehud Bara<\/strong>k was born Ehud Brog<\/strong> 12 February 1942 and is an Israeli general and politician who served as the tenth Prime Minister<\/a> from 1999 to 2001. He was leader of the Labor Party<\/a> until January 2011. He previously held the posts of Minister of Defense<\/a> and Deputy Prime Minister<\/a> under Ehud Olmert<\/a> and then in Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>‘s second government<\/a> from 2007 to 2013, as he retired from politics at the end of the tenure, though he returned in June of 2019 with the formation of a new party<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Rav Aluf<\/a> (Lieutenant general) in the Israel Defense Forces<\/a> (IDF), Barak is the joint most highly decorated soldier<\/a> in Israel’s history, having taken part in many battles and combat missions. Following a highly decorated career, he was appointed Chief of General Staff<\/a> in 1991, serving until 1995. He is a graduate in physics, mathematics, and economics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem<\/a> and Stanford University<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can never be sure whose company you might be in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of course we never spoke and he\u2019ll never know that we were right behind one another .. but then he probably wouldn\u2019t be interested!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So we visited a really nice restaurant in Tel-Aviv, Israel recently called Mantaray. I couldn\u2019t help but notice two serious plain clothes security officers, enter the restaurant. Perhaps I wouldn\u2019t have taken much notice except for the way they were checking out the place and the curly earpiece I noticed behind their left ears. And…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[629,70,247],"tags":[631,630,511],"class_list":["post-5974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-israel","category-people","category-world-affairs","tag-ehud-barak","tag-israel","tag-politicians"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_5180.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7ZU0a-1ym","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5974"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5983,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5974\/revisions\/5983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}