Nava Barak-Singer

From her marriage to Ehud Barak, she is the mother of three daughters. In 2003, after 34 years of marriage, Nava and Ehud Barak separated. On July 7, 2009, she remarried to businessman Shalom Singer.

During Ehud Barak's tenure as Israeli Prime Minister (1999–2001), she chose not to officially hold public roles and concentrated on volunteering to help youth in distress. During this period, she began assisting the activities of the Elem Association for Youth at Risk and the establishment of several projects: Hafuch al Hafuch cafes for meetings between youth and professionals, the Supervision Patrol Project for locating at-risk youth and a project for education for proper relationships in schools. In addition, she helped organizations such as Israel Cancer Association, Israel AIDS Task force, Tel Hashomer Hospital, Rabin Medical Center and the Association for Children with Down Syndrome. Following the attack on the children's bus in Kfar Darom, she raised money for a fund set up to help the injured.

The wedding of Nava Cohen and Ehud Barak was held on March 25, 1969, at the Ginaton Hotel in Tiberias. After the wedding, the newlyweds settled in Kiryat Hayovel in Jerusalem.

In the winter of 1968, she met her future husband, Ehud Barak (then Brug), at one of the libraries of the Hebrew University when Nava was a student studying English literature and Ehud was an officer with the rank of major who studied mathematics and physics. She graduated with a B.A in English and Arabic literature and then worked as an English teacher in a middle school in Kfar Saba.

Nava Barak-Singer (Hebrew: נאוה ברק-זינגר; née Cohen; April 8, 1947) is an Israeli educator and social activist. She was the wife of Ehud Barak between 1969–2003 and thus was also the Spouse of the prime minister of Israel between 1999–2001