{"id":16267,"date":"2020-03-30T15:28:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T15:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/?p=16267"},"modified":"2020-03-30T15:42:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T15:42:37","slug":"ambassador-ido-aharoni-of-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/ambassador-ido-aharoni-of-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Ambassador Ido Aharoni"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16269\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a class=\"dt-pswp-item\" href=\"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ido-aharoni.jpg\" data-dt-img-description=\"Israel Ambassador Ido Aharoni\" data-large_image_width=\"200\" data-large_image_height=\"200\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16269\" class=\"wp-image-16269\" src=\"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ido-aharoni-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ido-aharoni-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ido-aharoni.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israel Ambassador Ido Aharoni<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ambassador Ido Aharoni serves as a global distinguished professor at New York University\u2019s School of International Relations in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Ambassador Aharoni is a 25-year veteran of Israel\u2019s Foreign service, a public diplomacy specialist, founder of the Brand Israel program and a well-known nation branding practitioner. Ambassador Aharoni, who served as Israel&#8217;s longest serving consul-general in New York and the tristate area for six years, oversaw the operations of Israel\u2019s largest diplomatic mission worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Aharoni has been a member of Israel\u2019s Foreign Service since the summer of 1991 and held two other overseas positions in Los Angeles and in New York. I befriended Ambassador Aharoni during his tenure in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16268\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/MLK.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16268\" class=\"wp-image-16268\" src=\"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/MLK-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/MLK-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/MLK-768x1006.jpg 768w, https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/MLK-782x1024.jpg 782w, https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/MLK.jpg 2036w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As President of the Long Beach Central Area Association, i partnered with photojournalist Irene Fertrick for a book signing &amp; photo exhibit titled &#8220;BETA ISRAEL-House of Israel (capturing the hardships and kinships of Ethiopian Jews living in Israel) followed by reception led by Rabbi-Cantor. The location was Long Beach Borders Books and Music, June 7, 1998. The event was officially endorsed by the Israeli Consulate in honor of the 50th anniversary of Israel&#8217;s statehood.<\/p>\n<p>I recently emailed Ambassador Aharoni to share information about composer Elie Siegmeister I HAVE A DREAM Cantata with text by Edward Mabley based on a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. I was surprised to learn from the Ambassador that &#8220;ISRAEL is the only country, outside of the USA, that is\u00a0officially marking MLK\u2019s legacy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambassador Ido Aharoni serves as a global distinguished professor at New York University\u2019s School of International Relations in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Ambassador Aharoni is a 25-year veteran of Israel\u2019s Foreign service, a public diplomacy specialist, founder of the Brand Israel program and a well-known nation branding practitioner. Ambassador Aharoni, who served as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musicuntold-blog","category-97","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16267"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16277,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16267\/revisions\/16277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}