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Ron Dermer

Ron Dermer is an Israeli politician and member of the Likud Party. He currently serves as the country's strategic affairs minister.

Originally born in the United States, Dermer has served in the past as Israel's ambassador to the US.

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 US DEFENSE Secretary Lloyd Austin receives Defense Minister Yoav Gallant at the Pentagon, earlier this week.

Pentagon's private letter to Gallant, Dermer about possible arms embargo leaked to Israeli media

 STRATEGIC AFFAIRS Minister Ron Dermer stated, according to a leaked account of a security cabinet meeting, that ‘the prime minister can do whatever he wants.’

Security cabinet leaks are endangering Israel’s security

 Ron Dermer in 2019.

Blame Hamas, not Israel's government, Ron Dermer says

 ITAMAR BEN-GVIR (left) and Bezalel Smotrich sit in the Knesset plenum, on the day that the current government was approved and inaugurated, December 29, 2022.

Ben-Gvir questions possibility of peaceful solution in the north during cabinet meeting

By YAKI ADAMKER
 PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG attends the Megillah reading at the Theatron Hotel synagogue in Jerusalem.

Grapevine March 27, 2024: When the nose knows

 Ron Dermer enters the Knesset plenum on December 29, 2022.

Dermer: IDF to conduct Rafah operation even if entire world shuns us

 Hamas Gaza Chief Yahya Sinwar (L) gestures as he speaks with Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip September 19, 2017

Wall Street Journal reveals the real reason there's no ceasefire yet

 Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani shakes hands with US President Joe Biden during a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, US, January 31, 2022.

Biden calls Qatari Emir as Dermer visits Washington

 The march of the kidnapped families

How was the Israel-Hamas hostage deal signed?

By GIDEON KOTZ , MAARIV
 Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer arrives to a government conference at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on January 29, 2023

What is Israel's endgame in Gaza? - opinion

 Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer arrives to a government conference at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on January 29, 2023

US and Israel policy aligned regarding Saudi nuclear plans - Dermer

 Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer arrives to a government conference at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on January 29, 2023

Dermer pushes IDF, Mossad chiefs to support US-Israel 'defense alliance'

By Barak Ravid/Walla
 (L-R) Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken

Bolster West Bank stability, Blinken tells Dermer amid Israel-Saudi peace talks

 Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer arrives to a government conference at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on January 29, 2023

Ron Dermer set for Israel-Saudi peace talks in White House visit - report

 Ron Dermer enters the Knesset plenum on December 29, 2022.

Ron Dermer and Michael Oren share similar backgrounds

By GARY ROSENBLATT/JTA
 Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen with then-Mossad director Yossi Cohen at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, Israel on October 15, 2015

Two close PM advisers, ex-Mossad, NSC chiefs call for pause to legislation

 The White House is seen from the top of the Washington Monument April 3, 2003.

Israeli ministers at White House amid concern of US-Iran interim deal

Iranian military ship Iris Makran navigates on the coast of Rio de Janeiro as a Brazilian flag flutters in Copacabana Beach, Brazil, February 27, 2023.

Israel slams dangerous docking of two Iranian warships in Brazil