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Dore Gold

Dore Gold was an American-born Israeli political scientist and diplomat who served as Israel's ambassador to the United Nations and as Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

1953 to 2025Israel's ambassador to the UNDirector General of the Foreign MinistryThe book Hatred's KingdomHeading the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

Born: 25 July 1953, Hartford
Died: 3 March 2025, Jerusalem
Occupation: diplomat, pedagogue, political scientist
Education: Columbia University, Northfield Mount Hermon School, Yeshivat Hamivtar
Founded: One Jerusalem (2001)

Dore Gold was born in 1953 in Hartford

Dore Gold was born on 25 July 1953 in Hartford, Connecticut, and grew up in a Conservative Jewish home. He attended the Yeshiva of Hartford and later Northfield Mount Hermon School, class of 1971.

At Columbia University he earned degrees in political science, including a PhD in political science and Middle Eastern studies. He studied literary Arabic, and his doctoral work on Saudi Arabia became the basis for his book Hatred's Kingdom.

He moved to Israel in 1980 and served in the IDF. After his release in 1983 he worked as a researcher at Tel Aviv University, at the Moshe Dayan Center and the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies.

He advised the Israeli delegation at the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference and was Benjamin Netanyahu's foreign policy adviser from 1996 to 1997. He took part in talks with the Palestinians and in negotiations on the Hebron Agreement, then served as ambassador to the United Nations from 1997 to 1999.

He headed the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs from 2000 to 2022. From May 2015 to October 2016 he was Director General of the Foreign Ministry, and he died on 3 March 2025.