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NEW YORK – When I talk to outgoing Ambassador to the UN Gabriella Shalev, it’s a bright August morning. She admits that she’s utterly exhausted, almost to the point of collapse. It’s the end of her tenure, one day before she’s scheduled to return to Israel, and she’s sick for the first time in her two years here. Maybe, she conjectures, she got sick on her recent flight to Memphis, Tennessee, while traveling for AIPAC.
“Being a frequent traveler is always very dangerous,” Shalev notes, referencing the modern traveler’s twin perils of airborne germs and fatigue.
Arguably, however, she has spent the last two years in a much more dangerous place for an Israeli: the halls of the UN.
“Being a frequent traveler is always very dangerous,” Shalev notes, referencing the modern traveler’s twin perils of airborne germs and fatigue.
Arguably, however, she has spent the last two years in a much more dangerous place for an Israeli: the halls of the UN.