Daniel C. Kurtzer

Daniel Charles Kurtzer (born in June 1949 in Elizabeth, New Jersey in the United States) served as the United States ambassador to Israel from 2001 to 2005. He had been serving as U.S. ambassador to Egypt, to which post he had been appointed by Bill Clinton, when he was tapped for the Israel posting by George W. Bush. Kurtzer's parents are Nathan and Sylvia Kurtzer. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, and served for a time as the dean of his alma mater, Yeshiva College. Kurtzer joined the State Department and was serving as a junior officer at the American Embassy in Cairo when Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981. He served in Israel between 1982 to 1986, then became Deputy Director of the State Department's Egypt desk in...