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Consul General of Israel in New York. He served in the Israel Defense Forces as a company commander in the infantry during the first Lebanon war. In the spring of 1993, Aharoni was appointed to serve under then-Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, as policy assistant to Israel’s chief negotiator with the Palestinians.