Nava Barak

</noinclude> Nava Barak-Singer (; née Cohen; April 8, 1947) is an Israeli educator and social activist. She was the wife of Ehud Barak between 1969 and 2003 and thus the spouse of the prime minister of Israel between 1999 and 2001. Biography Nava Cohen was born in Tiberias. Her father was the manager of a branch of Bank Leumi and her mother worked for the Jewish Agency. She served in the Israel Defense Forces as a member of the Intelligence Corps. In the winter of 1968, while studying English and Arabic literature at the Hebrew University, she met her future husband, Ehud Brug, later Barak, in one of the university's libraries; Brug, a major in the IDF, was a student of mathematics and physics. After graduating with a BA, she obtained a position as an English teacher at a middle school in Kfar Saba.