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). Previously he served
as Foreign Policy Advisor to the former Prime Minister of Israel,
Benjamin Netanyahu. He has served as an advisor to Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon, who asked him to accompany his entourage to Washington
and the 2003 Aqaba Summit with President George W. Bush.
Ambassador Gold was a member of the Israeli delegation at the
1998 Wye River negotiations between Israel and the PLO, outside
of Washington. 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, he 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.
Ambassador Gold has written numerous books and articles on the
Middle East, including U.S. Military Strategy in the Middle East
(Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense Publications, 1993), Hatred's Kingdom:
How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism (Washington:
Regnery, 2003), Tower of Babble: How the United Nations Has Fueled
Global Chaos (NY: Crown Forum, 2004), The Fight for Jerusalem:
Radical Islam, the West, and the Future of the Holy City (Regnery,
2007) and The Rise of Nuclear Iran: How Tehran Defies the West
(Regnery, 2009). His articles have appeared in Asahi Shinbun,
Commentary, Daily Telegraph, Die Zeit, Ha'aretz, Jerusalem Post,
New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. He lives
in Jerusalem with his wife, Ofra, and their two children, Yael
and Ariel.
