NEW YORK, July 5 -- Yoni Koren was not a household name when Jeffrey Epstein's network was first exposed. A former Israeli military intelligence officer who served as an aide to Ehud Barak, Koren appears in the 2026 Department of Justice document release not as a peripheral figure but as someone who stayed inside Epstein's Manhattan apartment and whose cancer treatment was partly funded by Epstein's money.

The detail sits inside a larger disclosure about Barak's years-long relationship with Epstein, a relationship that has produced more than 6,000 references across the DOJ release. Koren's name surfaces specifically in connection with accommodation at Epstein's townhouse on East 71st Street and with a financial arrangement that covered p...