Naor Gilon
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Naor Gilon is the Minister-Counselor for Political Affairs at the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C.[1] who was the subject of FBI investigations into the AIPAC espionage scandal, the leaking of classified information by pro-Israeli employees at the United States Department of Defense. According to Ha'aretz, Gilon's return to the US in late 2005 is an indictaion that "no serious allegations concerning Israel's involvement in the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) affair still exist."[2]
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[edit] Personal background
Gilon was born in Israel and is married with four children. He received his BA in Political Science at Tel Aviv University and his Masters in International Relations at Budapest Economic University.
[edit] Career
Gilon joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1989 and has served as the Deputy Chief of Missions at the Embassy of Israel in Hungary, from 1990 – 1995, Deputy Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister, from 1995-1997, Counselor for Political Affairs at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations, from 1997 – 2000, and as Director of the Division for Strategic and Military Affairs in the Center for Policy Research in Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from 2000-2002.
