Barak

Barak was a military general in the Book of Judges in the Bible.

Barak or Barack may also refer to:

In places:

• Barak, Iran, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran
• Barak, Israel, a moshav in northern Israel
• Barak, Lublin Voivodeship, a village in eastern Poland
• Barak, Masovian Voivodeship, a village in east-central Poland
• Barak River, part of the Surma-Meghna River System in India and Bangladesh
  • Barak Valley, an Indian valley which the river flows through

In other uses:

• Barack (brandy), a Hungarian apricot brandy
• Mubarak (name) or Barak or Barack, an Arabic name
• Bosnian Coarse-Haired Hound or Barak, a dog breed
• Barak Armored Brigade, an Israeli brigade under the Northern Command
• Operation Barak, a 1948 Haganah military operation north of Gaza
• Barak (Guantanamo captive 856), an Afghan detainee at Guantanamo Bay
• Barak, a character in The Belgariad by David Eddings

People with the surname

• Aharon Barak (born 1936), former President of the Supreme Court of Israel
• Daphne Barak, Israeli-American interviewer
• Ehud Barak (born 1942), Israeli former Prime Minister and current Minister of Defense
• Josef Barák (1833–1883), Czech politician, journalist, and poet
• Jindřich Barák, Czech ice hockey player
• William Barak (1824–1903), the last traditional elder of the Wurundjeri-willam clan in Australia
• Wolf Blitzer or Ze'ev Barak

People with the given name

• Barak Badash (born 1982), Israeli football player
• Barak Bakhar (born 1979), Israeli football player
• Barak Epstein (born 1979), American film director
• Barak Longmate (1738-1793), English genealogist and engraver
• Barak Moshe (born 1991), Israeli football player
• Barack Obama (born 1961), 44th and current President of the United States
• Barack Obama, Sr. (1936–1982), Kenyan economist and President Barack Obama's father
• Barak Sopé (born 1955), Vanuatu politician
• Barak Yitzhaki (born 1984), Israeli football player

See also

• Barakah, Arabic for "blessing"
• Barag (disambiguation)
• Baraq (disambiguation)
• Barrack (disambiguation)
• Baruch, a given name
• Buraq (disambiguation)
• Baraka (disambiguation)
• Baraki Barak, home of the Baraki/Ormuri of Kurdish descent in Afghanistan's Logar Province
• Barak 1, an Israeli naval point-defense missile system
• Barak 8, an Israeli naval area-defense missile system
• Zadik Barak Levin syndrome, a human congenital disorder
• Barakzai, a number of different tribes in Afghanistan and western Pakistan
• Nawa, Afghanistan or Barak Khel, a village in Afghanistan

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