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Israel Report Is a Student Publication of Relations Led by Prime Minister Netanyahu To provide greater exposure to primary Israeli news sources and opinions in order to become better informed on the issues, and to gain a better understanding of the wide range of perspectives that exist in Israeli society and politics. Issue 1026 • October 14, 2016 • 12 Tishrei 5777 DIRECTOR GENERAL OF FOREIGN MINISTRY RESIGNS (YNet 10/13/16) On Thursday afternoon, just hours after announcing his resignation, Gold sat Dore Gold, Director General of the Foreign Ministry, has resigned from his down with The Jerusalem Post in his office in the Foreign Ministry that had position due to personal reasons. Gold, a former Israeli ambassador to the already been cleared of its content, save the tables and chairs. Gold UN, took the position a year and four months ago and is considered very dismissed any suggestion that his resignation had to do either with close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. disagreements with Netanyahu, or frustration that Netanyahu's top envoy Officials in the foreign ministry say Gold has felt frustrated that Netanyahu Yitzhak Molcho, or his new deputy minister for public diplomacy Michael has both excluded him from core issues in international relations and dealt Oren, had cut into his responsibilities. directly with Yitzhak Molcho and acting head of the National Security Council, “I have worked with Molcho for many years and accept that he is a very Yaakov Nagel. Gold was not involved in secret contacts with Turkey and was skilled diplomat,” Gold said, noting that Molcho works widely in the Arab excluded from talks with Egypt, the Palestinians, the Americans and others. world. “I have always enjoyed my time with him.” Gold found himself dealing only with Africa and employee disputes within the Regarding Oren, Gold said he knows him from Columbia University where Foreign Ministry. Additionally, large budget cuts at the Foreign Ministry they were both students in 1970s, and they would go over Arabic flashcards showed that Gold doesn't really run the ministry. He recently raised the issue together. “I never felt that he was taking my thunder,” Gold said. of leaving, but Netanyahu asked him to wait a bit. Gold, 62, with two children and two grandchildren, said he wanted to devote Among candidates set to replace Gold are Alon Ushpiz, the Deputy Director more of his time to his family. “I have a family, and have to give them time,” General for Diplomacy and Yuval Rotem, Head of Public Diplomacy. he said. “I have personal obligations, but I am not planning to retire to a In a message from Foreign Ministry administrators, Gold emphasized that he rocking chair in Kansas.” wanted to retire because his family was growing, and he wanted to spend He said he will return to the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and once more time with his grandchildren. In the accompanying statement, the again take up the position there as the think tank’s president. “I've learned Foreign Ministry said, "Dr. Dore Gold asked the Prime Minister and Minister how important that institutions like that can be if used correctly,” he said, of Foreign Affairs, Benjamin Netanyahu, to tender his resignation for personal noting that his connection with General Anwar Eshki of Saudi Arabia was reasons. Dr. Gold has served in his position since June 2015 and has been developed when he was at the think tank, not in the foreign ministry. with the Prime Minister for 25 years, since the Madrid Conference." Asked about the current situation in the Foreign Ministry, where morale is low In personal comments, Gold said, "I would like to thank the Prime Minister for because much of the organization's authority and responsibilities have been his confidence in me and I will continue to make myself available for every bitten off by other ministries, Gold recalled that in 1974 – at a time when the task imposed on me in the future. The role of Director General of the Foreign eloquent Abba Eban was foreign minister – public diplomacy was taken from Ministry was a personal and professional peak reached while serving on the the ministry and given to a newly formed Hasbara Ministry. diplomatic front. I am grateful for the professional and dedicated employees “My point is that for years there have been cases where certain of the Foreign Ministry. Together, we navigated Israel's diplomatic struggles. In the period I served as Director General, we experienced a boom in foreign Israel Report is a Student Publication of relations led by Prime Minister Netanyahu. I feel proud to have been a part of this and wish luck to my successor." Daniel Zolty, Editor-in-Chief Gold is considered one of the people closest to Netanyahu. In the past, he Yonatan Kurz, Moshe Davis, Alex Ostrin and Yoav Zolty, Editors We are proud to be distributed by these institutions, though they do not necessarily support or condone served in several diplomatic positions, including Israel's ambassador to the any of the material published: UN (1997-1999) and political advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Anshei Chesed Cong., Boynton Beach, FL Hillel at Brandeis University (1996-1997). As political advisor, Gold served as the Prime Minister's envoy Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies Hillel at California State University - Long Beach Boca Raton Synagogue, FL Hillel at Columbia University to Egypt, Jordan and the Gulf States. Carmel School, Hong Kong Hillel at Johns Hopkins University Cong. Agudath Achim, Bradley Beach, NJ Hillel at Yale University Cong. Ahavas Achim, Highland Park, NJ Hillel High School, Deal NJ NO BAD BLOOD WITH NETANYAHU (JPost 10/13/16) Cong. Ahavath Achim, Fairfield, CT Jewish Center of Teaneck, NJ Denying any bad blood with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Foreign Cong. Anshe Shalom, Jamaica Estates, NY Kehillas Bais Yehudah Tzvi, Cedarhurst, NY Cong. Anshe Sholom, New Rochelle, NY Kemp Mill Synagogue, Silver Spring, MD Ministry Director-General Dore Gold unexpectedly resigned on Thursday, Cong. Beth Aaron, Teaneck, NJ Mizrachi Shul, Johannesburg, SA citing “personal reasons” for his decision to leave his job immediately as the Cong. Beth Shalom, Monroe Twp, NJ North Shore Hebrew Academy HS, NY Cong. Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, NJ Suburban Torah Center, Livingston, NJ country's top diplomat just 15 months after taking over the position. Cong. Etz Ahaim, Highland Park, NJ The Learning Shul, Columbia, SC Gold is the second top foreign policy official around Netanyahu to opt out of Cong. Ohr Torah, Edison, NJ Woodsburgh, NY Minyan office in less than three months because of “personal reasons.” Yaakov Cong. Rinat Yisrael, Teaneck, NJ Young Israel Bet Tefilah of Aberdeen, NJ Cong. Shomrei Torah, Fair Lawn, NJ Young Israel of Brookline, MA Nagel, the acting head of the National Security Council, turned down an Cong. Sons of Israel, Allentown, PA Young Israel of East Brunswick, NJ appointment to head the organization in August, also citing personal reasons. Cong. Zichron Mordechai, Teaneck, NJ Young Israel of Fort Lee, NJ Cong. Zichron R. M. Feinstein, Brooklyn, NY Young Israel of Hancock Park, CA Netanyahu thanked Gold, who has served at his side in various capacities for Delray Orthodox Synagogue, Delray Beach, FL Young Israel of Holliswood, NY some 25 years, for his dedicated service. He quickly named veteran diplomat East Denver Orthodox Synagogue, CO Young Israel of Houston, TX Flatbush Park Jewish Center, Mill Basin, NY Young Israel of New Hyde Park, NY Yuval Rotem as Gold's replacement. Harvard University Library Young Israel of North Woodmere, NY Rotem, a former ambassador to Australia, is currently the ministry's deputy Hebrew Academy of Long Beach, NY Young Israel of New Rochelle, NY Hillel at Baruch College Young Israel of Sharon, MA director-general for public diplomacy. He served as Netanyahu's chief of staff YI Shomrai Emunah, Silver Spring, MD in the ministry when Netanyahu – who was then prime minister – held the We encourage our readers to subscribe to our sources on the internet. For more information or to foreign minister's portfolio for 10 months in 1998. subscribe by e-mail, reach us at [email protected] 2 responsibilities have been taken away and given to others, who tried their latest UNESCO decision, are a clear message to Israel that the international hand at it, and then it was given back,” he said. “The best way to handle this community doesn’t agree with the occupation, and that the occupation only is not to get in fights it the newspapers, but to do good work.” contributes to chaos and instability. “There is no replacement for the foreign ministry, and for embassies around He stressed that the decision is an important message to the Israelis that the world, and the knowledge that is based in this building,” Gold said. “What they must end the occupation and recognize a Palestinian state with its we do need are resources. The ministry tends to be underfunded.” capital in east Jerusalem, and that the Palestinians must have exclusive Gold said that rather than “folding up the flag” in Israeli representations sovereignty over all Christian and Muslim holy sites. abroad to save money, “the country needs to open new embassies in Africa.” The spokesman ended, saying that Israel must internalize the fact that its policies are only creating and maintaining a negative athmosphere, and that RIVLIN: DENIERS OF JEWISH CONNECTION TO JERUSALEM ARE negative athmosphere radiates throughout the region. He added that the EMBARRASSING THEMSELVES (JPost 10/13/16) international community sees this, and is therefore against the State of Israel. Those who deny the Jewish connection to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount are simply embarrassing themselves President Reuven Rivlin, a seventh YOM KIPPUR HOLIDAY AN ENVIRONMENTAL BLESSING, SAYS EPA generation Jerusalemite, said on Thursday.
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