Dore Gold
1953–2025 (age 72)
Biography
Isidore "Dore" Gold (Hebrew: איזידור "דורי" גולד; 25 July 1953 – 3 March 2025) was an American-born Israeli political scientist and diplomat.
After making aliyah in 1980, Gold worked at the research institutes Moshe Dayan Center for Near East Studies and the Jaffee Centre for Strategic Studies, before serving as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Foreign Policy Advisor from 1996 to 1997. He then was appointed Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations, and served in the post until 1999.
Gold was the president of think tank Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs from 2000 to 2022, including an appointment as Director-General of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs from May 2015 to October 2016.