Ambassador Dore Gold is President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He was the eleventh Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations (1997-1999), and previously he served as Foreign Policy Advisor to the former Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. Ambassador Gold has also served as advisor to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who asked him to accompany his entourage to Washington and to the 2003 Aqaba Summit with President George W. Bush. He was a member of the Israeli delegation at the 1998 Wye River negotiations between Israel and the PLO. He negotiated the Note for the Record, which supplemented the 1997 Hebron Protocol, and in 1996 concluded the negotiations with the U.S., Lebanon, Syria, and France for the creation of the Monitoring Group for Southern Lebanon. In 1991, Dr. Gold served as an advisor to the Israeli delegation to the Madrid Peace Conference. From 1985 to 1996 he was a senior research associate at the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University, where he was Director of the U.S. Foreign and Defense Policy Project. Dr. Gold received his BA ('75), MA ('76), and PhD ('84) from Columbia University.
Below you will find the link an important radio interview that Ambassador Dore Gold gave on Wednesday, October 29th. The interview, broadcast live to parts of seven states from the studios of WAMC Northeast Public Radio (NPR) and is about twenty minutes in length. Those of us who heard the interview live feel that it is very worthwhile listening.
Ambassador Gold also delivered feature addresses at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and the University at Albany, and presented to a select group of professors and staff of the Rockefeller College for Public Affairs.
Ambassador Gold's visit was facilitated by Jewish Educational Resources of New York (JERNY).
