Dore Gold is an American-Israeli political scientist and diplomat who served as Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations from 1997 to 1999.
20 Facts About Dore Gold
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Dore Gold is currently the President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
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Dore Gold was an advisor to the former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his first term in office.
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Dore Gold was born in 1953 in Hartford, Connecticut, in the United States, and was raised in a Conservative Jewish home.
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Dore Gold studied literary Arabic and specialized in international law, and his doctoral dissertation was about Saudi Arabia.
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In 1991, Dore Gold was an advisor to the Israeli delegation at the Madrid Peace Conference.
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Dore Gold accompanied Netanyahu to meetings with the Jordanian leadership in 1994 and 1995 in London, Amman and in Aqaba.
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Dore Gold was involved in negotiations leading up to the Hebron Agreement and the Note for the Record.
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Dore Gold himself has not written about the period in which he served as an envoy to the Palestinians and the rest of the Arab world; nonetheless, a number of revelations have been disclosed by other authors.
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From 1997 to 1999 Dore Gold was the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations.
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In 1998 Dore Gold served as a member of the Israeli delegation at the Wye River negotiations between Israel, the PLO, and then US President Bill Clinton at the Wye River Plantation in Maryland.
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From 2000 to the present, Dore Gold has been the president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
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One of the projects Dore Gold has led at the JCPA is the concept of Defensible Borders for Israel.
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Since 2000 Dore Gold has served as president of the non-profit institute, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
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From 2001 to 2003, Gold served as an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, most notably at the Aqaba Summit with President George W Bush.
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In July 2003, Dore Gold testified as an expert before the US Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs on Saudi Arabia's alleged role in providing ideological and financial support for international terrorism.
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Dore Gold led an Israeli delegation to a second conference at the British House of Commons on January 25,2007 which was chaired by Lord David Trimble and supported by members of the British Labour Party and the Conservative Party.
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Ambassador Dore Gold was invited to attend a roundtable meeting at the office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Hague, held on October 20,2010.
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On October 13,2016, Dore Gold resigned from the Director-General's position for personal reasons.
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In 2020, Dore Gold received the Bonei Zion Prize in the field of Global Impact.