During this Mizmor Shir! Shabbat, we will welcome Ido Aharoni Aronoff, Israeli diplomat, writer, lecturer, and 25 year veteran of Israel’s foreign service.

Ido Aharoni is an Israeli diplomat, advisor to global companies, public speaker, university lecturer, writer and investor. He was born in Tel Aviv to a family that settled in theLand of Israel in the 1870’s, and spent his entire diplomatic career in the United States on both coasts. He is a 25-year veteran of Israel’s Foreign service, a public diplomacy specialist, founder of theBrand IsraelProgram, and a well-known place positioning and branding practitioner. Aharoni has served as a Member of the Board of Governors of Tel Aviv University since 2015 and as a lecturer at the university’s Coller School of Management since 2018. He is the host of TAU Unbound, the official English language podcast of Tel Aviv University. He has served as a Global Distinguished Professor for International Relations atNew York University and has frequently appeared in international media as a commentator. Aharoni has been Israel's longest-serving Consul-General in New York (2010-2016).

Ido Aharoni will address the Gaza War and its implications for Israel, world Jewry and the Middle East.