JERUSALEM, July 5 -- When Ehud Barak's wife needed the security system upgraded at a Manhattan apartment owned by a company connected to Jeffrey Epstein, the man brought in to install it was not a contractor. He was a former security director for Israel's mission to the United Nations.

That arrangement, described in documents released by the United States Department of Justice in February 2026, sits at the center of the court-ordered Epstein file disclosure that has drawn the most sustained attention to former Israeli Prime Minister Barak's relationship with the convicted sex offender. It places a figure from Israel's government security apparatus inside a property tied to Epstein, at the request of a former prime minister's household. ...