The Cabinet on Sunday, 21 Menachem Av 5773 unanimously approved the appointment of Ron Dermer as Israeli Ambassador to the US.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said, “Ron is one of the most talented and dedicated people I know. No one is more appropriate. He will continue the exceptional work of outgoing Ambassador Michael Oren; I am certain that Ron will continue this work.”

Dermer is 42, married and the father of five children. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business and holds a master’s degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford.

In 2004, Natan Sharansky and Dermer wrote The Case For Democracy: The Power Of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny And Terror, which became a best-seller and has been translated into ten languages.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)