Dore Gold, a former ambassador and adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, dies aged 71.
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar sends his condolences on social media, calling Gold “a model diplomat, paving new paths for Israel’s relations with countries around the world, especially within the Arab sphere.”
Gold held key diplomatic posts, including Foreign Ministry director general from 2015 to 2016, and Israel’s UN ambassador from 1997 to 1999.
He was a member of Israel’s delegation at the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference, and was Netanyahu’s foreign policy adviser during his first term in the 1990s and again from 2013 to 2015. He also headed the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs think tank.
Gold is survived by his wife, two children and six grandchildren.
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