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Post by pieter on Feb 4, 2023 6:43:29 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Feb 4, 2023 6:46:06 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Feb 4, 2023 6:48:47 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Feb 4, 2023 6:53:06 GMT -7
Dani Dayan (Hebrew: דני דיין; born 29 November 1955) is an Argentine-Israeli entrepreneur and Consul General of Israel in New York since August 2016 and Yad Vashem chairman since August 2021. Dayan is an advocate for the establishment and maintenance of Israeli settlements in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria). He served as the Chairman of the Yesha Council, an umbrella organization of municipal councils of Jewish settlements in the West Bank (and formerly in the Gaza Strip), from 2007 to 2013. In 2013, he resigned as Chairman of the Yesha Council to endorse Benjamin Netanyahu for Prime Minister. Dayan was subsequently appointed as Chief Foreign Envoy of the Yesha Council, as the only official representative of the Israeli settlement movement to the international community. After a diplomatic stand-off over its assignment of former settler leader Dayan as ambassador to Brazil without consulting the government of Brasilia, Israel backed off and in March 2016 assigned Dayan as Consul General of Israel in New York.
Described by The New York Times as "worldly and pragmatic" and "the most effective leader the settlers have had." Dayan is perceived by many to be the face of the Israeli settlement movement to the international community. His writing appears in many publications, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, USA Today, The Guardian, Breitbart, Haaretz, The Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post.
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Post by pieter on Feb 4, 2023 7:20:51 GMT -7
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