Ambassador Dore Gold was born in 1953 in the United States and made aliyah in 1980. Gold earned his Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Arts in political science at Columbia University, and later a doctorate in political science and Middle Eastern studies.In 1985, Gold served as a senior research associate at the Moshe Dayan Center for Near East Studies at Tel Aviv University and subsequently served as the Director of the US Foreign and Defense Policy Project at the Jaffee Center for Strategies Studies.
In 1991, Gold advised the Israeli delegation at the Madrid Peace Conference. Afterward, as a foreign policy adviser to Benjamin Netanyahu as Prime Minister and later as leader of the opposition, Gold was an instrumental player in the negotiations that led to the Hebron Agreement and the “Note of the Record” that served as the basis of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s approach to peace negotiations at the time.
From 1997 until 1999, Gold was appointed to serve as the eleventh Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations.
Beyond politics, Ambassador Gold has authored numerous books including American Military Strategy in the Middle East: The Implications of the US Regional Command Structure (CENTCOM) For Israel; Israel as an American Non-NATO Ally: Parameters of Defense and Industrial Cooperation; Arms Control in the Middle East; and Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism. He has also published articles in Commentary, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Asahi Shinbun, Die Zeit, Ha'aretz, The Jerusalem Post and The Guardian.
Gold currently resides in Jerusalem with his wife and his two children.
