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Jacob Goldberg

About Jacob Goldberg

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Jacob Goldberg is the former acting head of the Dayan Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Tel-Aviv University. He has been a visiting professor at Cornell University, George Washington Universtiy, and the University of California San Diego. He received his undergraduate degree in Middle East and Arabic from Tel-Aviv University. He holds a law degree from Tel Aviv University along with an MA and PhD in Middle East politics from Harvard University. Additionally, he was the foreign policy adviser to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. His book, The Foreign Policy of Saudi Arabia was published by Harvard University Press in 1986.