New Delhi, July 13 -- The staff had a name for it. When Ehud Barak - a former Israeli prime minister who had also served as his country's defense minister - stayed at Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan apartment, Epstein's personal assistants referred to it in emails as "Ehud's apartment." A June 2019 message from Barak's wife arranging a stay, timed weeks before Epstein's arrest on federal sex-trafficking charges, was among the three million pages of files the Justice Department released in January 2026. It was not among the most explosive things those pages contained.

the moment when many of his associates, publicly at least, say they ended contact. Barak did not. Emails, visitor logs, and financial records in the DOJ release trace the two me...