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Senior Counselor, Center for Political Research, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel Jacob Rosen is the Senior Counselor, Center for Political Research in Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Rosen is a veteran diplomat. Prior to his current position, he was Israel’s ambassador to Jordan from 2006 to 2009. His other diplomatic posts include in Atlanta, New Delhi, Cairo, New York, London, and Hauge. In November 2002, he took up the post of Political Advisor for International Affairs to the Mayor of Jerusalem. Rosen was born in Poland and immigrated to Israel at the age of 9. He served in the IDF from 1966 to1969 and then went on to earn his B.A. in Middle Eastern Studies at Hebrew University. He is fluent in Polish, Dutch, English, Arabic, and Hebrew and is the author of "Crossing the Jordan River: The Journey’s of an Israeli Diplomat" (Atlanta, 2004).
