Alon Pinkas is an Israel

Israel

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i diplomat, who most recently served as Consul general of Israel in the United States

United States

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. He was succeeded by Aryeh Mekel

Aryeh Mekel

Ambassador Arye Mekel is an Israeli diplomat and journalist who served as the Consul General of Israel in New York .The child of Holocaust survivors and a former director General of The Israel Broadcasting Authority and radio correspondent and editor, Ambassador Mekel served as Foreign Policy...

 as Consul General. He is currently a foreign affairs analyst for Fox Television.

Pinkas has also served as Chief of Staff to Shlomo Ben-Ami

Shlomo Ben-Ami

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 and David Levy

David Levy (Israeli politician)

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 (Ministers of Foreign Affairs). He was a foreign policy advisor for Ehud Barak

Ehud Barak

Ehud Barak is an Israeli politician who served as Prime Minister from 1999 until 2001. He was leader of the Labor Party until January 2011 and holds the posts of Minister of Defense and Deputy Prime Minister in Binyamin Netanyahu's government....

 and political advisor to Shimon Peres

Shimon Peres

GCMG is the ninth President of the State of Israel. Peres served twice as the eighth Prime Minister of Israel and once as Interim Prime Minister, and has been a member of 12 cabinets in a political career spanning over 66 years...

.

Personal life

Pinkas was born in Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

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 and grew up in Rechovot. He graduated summa cum laude in political science from Hebrew University. After his bachelor's he went straight to the United States to do his master's, and he graduated cum laude from Georgetown University

Georgetown University

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with degree in Government and Politics. He is married to Revital. They have two children.