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Aviva Klompas

Writer

Aviva Klompas is a speechwriter, communications strategist, public speaker, and policy advisor. Her latest book, Speaking for Israel: A Speechwriter Battles Anti-Israel Opinions at the United Nations, revisits her experience as Israel’s UN speechwriter, where she witnessed the collapse of four Middle Eastern states, faltering Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, waves of Palestinian terrorism, stop-and-go nuclear negotiations culminating in the Iran nuclear deal, an attempt to push Palestinian statehood through the UN Security Council, the Palestinians’ bid to join the International Criminal Court, the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers, and fifty days of war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza in 2014. Klompas has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Foreign Policy among other publications. (Photo: Personal YouTube Channel / Screenshot)