📧 Communication

This document is page 113 from a memoir by Ehud Barak, submitted as evidence in a House Oversight investigation. It details the start of the 2006 Lebanon War, the political landscape of Israel following Ariel Sharon's stroke and Ehud Olmert's rise to Prime Minister, and mentions a specific phone call between Shimon Peres and Barak on the evening of July 12, 2006. The text highlights the lack of military experience in the Olmert cabinet at the onset of the crisis.