GUEST SPEAKER

Ambassador Gilad Erdan

Gilad Erdan has served as Israel’s Ambassador to the UN since August 2020. From January until November 2021, Ambassador Erdan also served as Israel’s Ambassador to the United States. During Ambassador Erdan’s tenure at the UN, he initiated and passed a critical resolution in the UN General Assembly combatting Holocaust denial — making it only the second time in history that an Israeli-led resolution was passed at the UN.

Erdan previously served as a member of Knesset for seventeen years from 2003 to 2020. During this time, he was a senior minister for 11 years in several ministries in the Israeli government, including in the security cabinet. From 2015 to 2020, Erdan served as minister of public security, where he oversaw Israel’s first responders. From 2015 to 2020, Erdan was also Israel’s minister of strategic affairs, where he coordinated the government’s strategy against the Palestinian-led efforts to delegitimize and boycott the State of Israel. From 2013 to 2014, Erdan served as minister of communications, where he increased competition in all sectors of the industry.

Erdan graduated from Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law and clerked at one of Israel’s leading commercial law firms in Tel Aviv. He was admitted to the Israel Bar Association in 1999 and holds a master’s degree in political science from Tel Aviv University.

Erdan is a native of the port city of Ashkelon. He is married and the father of four children.

PROGRAM 

5:30 p.m. Cocktails
6:30 p.m. Dinner and Tribute

HONOREES

Al and Linda Adelson

EVENT CHAIRS

Donald and Connie Berg
Martin and Bonnie Spector

LOCATION 

The Breakers Palm Beach
One South County Road

Cocktail Attire

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