Trump restores power of Israeli ambassador
After years in the Obama wilderness, Ron Dermer is reveling in the embrace of the president-elect.
By Michael Crowley
01/06/17 05:03 AM EST
In November 2014, Israel’s ambassador to the U.S., Ron Dermer, was a featured guest at a dinner for graduates of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton school of business. The other honoree that night: Donald J. Trump.
For Dermer, it was an extra-special occasion. As the Israeli envoy explained to the crowd at a Washington hotel, according to the text of his prepared remarks, the mogul had been an inspiration for the diplomat.
When Trump’s "The Art of the Deal" was published in 1987, a teenage Dermer read the cutthroat manifesto and resolved to become an entrepreneur like Trump. The book even convinced him to attend Trump’s alma mater of Wharton.
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