Ram Ben-Barak
In 1976 he joined the IDF and served as a combat soldier and as an officer in the Sayeret Matkal commando unit.[1] In April 1991, he was arrested in Cyprus along with three other agents of the Mossad, posing as tourists during the operation to install listening devices at the Iranian embassy in Nicosia.He served as an advisor to the Israeli Embassy in Washington and a visiting research fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.[3] On 15 January 2018, he announced he was joining the Yesh Atid party[4] and became a member of the Knesset in April 2019.In October 2023, Ben-Barak announced that he would run in Yesh Atid's first leadership primary election, challenging incumbent leader Yair Lapid;[5] on 28 March 2024, however, Ben-Barak lost the election to Lapid by 308 votes to 279.