Aryeh Mekel

Arye Mekel (Hebrew: אריה מקל; 1946 – June 19, 2021) was an Israeli diplomat and journalist.

Mekel served as foreign policy adviser[2] to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir (1986–1989) Mekel joined Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1984 as a senior researcher at the Center for Political Research.

[5] In 2010, he assumed his position as Ambassador of the State of Israel to Greece,[6] in which he served until summer of 2014.

Currently he is a senior research associate at the Begin-Sadat center for strategic studies at Bar Ilan University in Israel.

He was also an adjunct professor of Judaic studies at the University of Cincinnati and a representative of the World Zionist Organization in Cincinnati, Ohio (1976–1979) and director general of the Israel Broadcasting Authority, responsible for all State television and radio (1989–1993).