Ynet meets Dr. Eran Lerman, who took office Thursday as deputy chief of Israel's National Security Council.
For
the last nine years, Dr. Lerman has served as the director of the
American Jewish Committee's Middle East office. The AJC is one of the
oldest Jewish organizations in the United States, established 103 years
ago. Lerman started his work with the organization while Bill Clinton
was still president and is finishing it as Jerusalem is showing certain
suspicions about the new US administration.
Thanks to Jeff Blankfort, who writes, "that this former Israeli intelligence official who was the head of the
AJC's Middle East office can shift so easy into an important position
in the Israeli government would indicate that there is actually no line
between the AJC and whatever government is in power in Israel."
