Even those of us who follow the news from Israel regularly are left with more questions than insight:

How should we think about Israel’s security in the face of a rapidly changing Middle East?

What is the government doing in response to the worldwide condemnation of the Jewish State . . . and what could it do?

Has the Start-Up Nation sputtered out?

Can the breach between the religious and the secular populations be healed — and how?

Does the Israeli government take the concerns and opinions of the Jewish diaspora seriously enough? Should it?

With so many questions — and so much confusion — we have recruited the ideal person to pull back the curtain on the complicated situation: an Israeli diplomat, university professor, writer and investor, Ido Aharoni.

Each month, Ambassador Aharoni will offer a brief update on the most recent Israeli affairs, answering your questions and taking us behind the scenes into the thinking and actions of government, business leaders and the Israeli public.

Ambassador Ido Aharoni is a veteran of the Israeli Foreign Service who, among other things, served as Israel’s Consul General in New York (2010-2016), took part in the back-channel negotiations with the Palestinians and introduced the concept of nation branding to Israel’s public diplomacy. Since retirement from government in 2016, he has held senior advisory roles with multinational corporations such as APCO, Libra, Value Base, Bank Leumi USA and MasterCard. He is currently serving as Professor of Business at Touro University, and held professorships at NYU, University of California at San Diego and Tel Aviv University. A widely sought-after speaker, he was invited to lecture on the marketing of places at scores of universities, including Wharton, UC Berkeley, Harvard, Yale and UCLA.