Asaf Shariv (Hebrew: אסף שריב) (born April 6, 1972) was

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

’s Consul General in

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from August 2007 until 2010.‘New approach’: An interview with Israel’s new consul general in NY
, New Jersey Jewish News, published December 27, 2007. He is the youngest diplomat to date that has ever been designated this position. Prior to his appointment, Shariv was the Director of Media and Public Affairs to Prime Ministers

Ehud Olmert Ehud Olmert (; he, אֶהוּד אוֹלְמֶרְט, ; born 30 September 1945) is an Israeli politician and lawyer. He served as the 12th Prime Minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009 and before that as a cabinet minister from 1988 to 1992 and ...

and

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, where his responsibilities included supervising the Government’s Press Office and Advertising Bureau.Heads of States
, by Gil Hoffman, New Jersey Jewish News, published July 24, 2008. He was also the spokesman for various government agencies, such as the Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations (

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), the Atomic Energy Committee, the National Security Committee and the Counter-Terrorism Unit. In 2002, when Shariv joined the Prime Minister’s Office as Senior Advisor to

’s Chief-of-Staff,An Israeli Diplomat Offers Positive View
by Richard W. Stevenson, Litchfield County Times, published June 27, 2008. he sat on the Prime Minister’s committee that discussed strategic issues with the American government, and was instrumental in formalizing the MOU between

and the

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regarding the

Road Map for Peace The Roadmap for peace or road map for peace ( he, מפת הדרכים ''Mapa had'rakhim'', ''Khāriṭa ṭarīq as-salāmu'') was a plan to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict proposed by the Quartet on the Middle East: the United Stat ...

.Israel to coordinate with U.S. on moves
USA Today, December 16, 2003. He was also a member of the special task force that dealt with issues such as the route of the security fence, the

disengagement from Gaza The Israeli disengagement from Gaza ( he, תוכנית ההתנתקות, ') was the unilateral dismantling in 2005 of the 21 Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip and the evacuation of Israeli settlers and army from inside the Gaza Strip. Th ...

and the U.S. guarantees on Israeli bonds.Israel to Begin Controversial Phase of Barrier Construction
New York Times, published June 14, 2004.

Biography

Consul General Shariv got his start in Public Affairs in 1990, as a soldier in the

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, during which time he was a reporter and senior editor for the weekly BaMachane, the official newspaper of the Israeli military.Consul General Talks Israeli and Palestinian Peace Negotiations
, By Amanda Ciccatelli, The Recorder, published April 23, 2008. In 1993, Mr. Shariv was promoted to Acting Editor-in-Chief of BaMachane. From 1994-1995, he worked as a deputy editor at

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newspaper.

Education

In 1997, he earned a degree in law from The

Interdisciplinary Center Reichman University ( he, אוניברסיטת רייכמן) is Israel's only private university, located in Herzliya, Tel Aviv District. It was founded in 1994 as the IDC Herzliya private college, before being rebranded in 2021. It receives no ...

, and until 2002 practiced as an attorney at the

Tel-Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the ...

firm of Weissglass-Almagor.

References

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