Yosef Ben-Aharon, a 43-year-old diplomat, has been appointed chief deputy to Consul General Uri Ben-Ari in New York and will handle political and international affairs. He has been at the nerve center of Israel-American relations for the past several years, first as a diplomat in the Israeli Embassy in Washington when Yitzhak Rabin was the Ambassador, and since the Yom Kippur War, as one of the Premier’s inner staff of aides.
Ben-Aharon was co-opted to the Premier’s office during the war by the then-Director General, Mordechai Gazit, Premier Golda Meir’s top aide and now Ambassador to Paris, and stayed on when Rabin became Premier. Raised in Egypt, Ben-Aharon is the father of five daughters, one of whom is married to a student at the Merkaz-Harav Kook Yeshiva. He himself took time out between leaving the Premier’s office and taking up the new appointment to study at Jerusalem’s “Ohr Samayach” Yeshiva.
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