Ambassador Arye Mekel is a veteran Israeli diplomat and journalist. He served as foreign policy adviser to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Consul General to New York and Atlanta, Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador to Greece and Foreign Ministry Spokesman. He was also Director General of the Israel Broadcasting Authority, in charge of all State Television and Radio broadcasts. He is currently a senior fellow at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar- Ilan University.