Posted on 07/09/2013 12:03:32 PM PDT by IsraelBeach
Ron Dermer Appointed As Israel's Next US Ambassador
By Joel Leyden
Israel News Agency
Jerusalem, Israel --- July 9, 2013 …Part of the following was communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser to the Israel News Agency.
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appointed Ron Dermer as Israel's next Ambassador to the US. Over the past four years, Dermer has served as Prime Minister Netanyahu's senior adviser and previously (2005-2008) served as the economic attache' at the Israel Embassy in Washington.
Dermer is 42, married and the father of five children. Ron is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business and holds a master's degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford.
In 2004, Natan Sharansky and Dermer wrote The Case For Democracy: The Power Of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny And Terror which became a best-seller and has been translated into ten languages.
Ron Dermer was born and raised in Miami Beach, Florida, as the younger son of Yaffa Rosenthal, who was born in Mandate Palestine and moved to Florida with her parents shortly after Israel won its independence. His father, Jay Dermer, a trial lawyer from New York, became Mayor of Miami Beach in the late 1960s.
Dermer worked as a political consultant for Natan Sharansky in the 1999 campaign, and from January 2001 for nearly three years he wrote a column “The Numbers Game” for the Jerusalem Post. In 2005, while Benjamin Netanyahu served as Finance Minister under Ariel Sharon, Dermer was appointed Minister for Economic Affairs to the Israeli embassy in Washington, a post for which he had to give up his American citizenship. In 2008, after his return to Israel, he became adviser to Netanyahu, who became Israel's prime minister in April 2009.
Currently Dermer is Netanyahu’s most senior adviser. His office is right next to Netanyahu. Dermer is said to run much of the interference with the Obama White House, and is intimately involved in the diplomatic process with the Palestinians. But perhaps is Ron is best known for writing many of Netanyahu’s speeches. He's considered Netanyahu's closest adviser and strategic consultant.
Dermer is married to Rhoda Pagano Dermer. The couple has four children and live in Jerusalem.
"Ron Dermer has all the qualities necessary to successfully fill this important post," said Netanyahu. "I have known him for many years and I know that Ron will faithfully represent the State of Israel in the capital of our greatest ally – the USA. On behalf of the citizens of Israel, I wish him great success."
The Israel News Agency is proud of both Ambassador Michael Oren and the new Ambassador Ron Dermer. We had the pleasure to work with both men and can say without any doubt that Netanyahu has made two brilliant choices - one after the other. Both Oren and Dermer represent what is best about Israel. Intelligent, wise, strong, unfailing perseverance and extremely articulate.
We wish both Michael and Ron much success in the days to come.
” “Ron Dermer has all the qualities necessary to successfully fill this important post,” said Netanyahu. “I have known him for many years and I know that Ron will faithfully represent the State of Israel in the capital of our greatest ally – the USA. On behalf of the citizens of Israel, I wish him great success.” “
Good enough for me.
Let me guess - he’s gay.
Did you read the guy’s resueme?? Why don’t we have people with this kind of education...no, we have to settle for a freekin community organizer!
” Why don’t we have people with this kind of education...no, we have to settle for a freekin community organizer!”
Well, it didn’t help that McCain & Romney were possibly the two worst Republican candidates in the past 50+ years.
Given the way Israel’s been treated by emperor hussein, I’m surprised Israel’s even sending an ambassador.
I was thinking the same thing... isn't being a poofter a prerequisite for becoming an ambassador in the Obama regime?
Damn.. disregard my last. He’s Israel’s guy. I misread the headline...
Wonder what they call him after he’s eaten a big meal...
I made the same mistake.
He’s from Israel.....not from US.
This is who the Obama Admin were going after when they went to eavesdrop on Alfabank in Trump Tower - Fridman and through him, Sharansky and Netanyahu, Dermer and Trump.
Seems like that info would have been of interest to parties with a stake in Obama’s Middle Eastern policy—Saudis, Iran, opposition party in Israel. I wonder if the Awan brothers would have had access to the wiretap info.
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