(JNS.org) Dore Gold, the head of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) and former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, will serve as an external political consultant to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2014, Israel Hayom reported. Gold, who grew up in West Hartford and attended the Bess & Paul Sigel Hebrew Academy in Bloomfield, replaces Netanyahu’s former political adviser, Ron Dermer, the new Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Gold will not be considered a state employee of Israel and will therefore be able to maintain his post at the JCPA.