Alon Pinkas

Alon Pinkas (; born 6 August 1961) is an Israeli diplomat and writer.

Early life and education Alon Pinkas was born in Tel Aviv and grew up in Rehovot. He graduated summa cum laude in political science from Hebrew University. After his bachelor's he went to the United States to do his master's, and he graduated cum laude from Georgetown University with a degree in Government and Politics.

Career Pinkas served as chief of staff to Shlomo Ben-Ami and David Levy (Ministers of Foreign Affairs). He was a foreign policy advisor for Ehud Barak and political advisor to Shimon Peres. He was succeeded as Consul General by Aryeh Mekel.

Pinkas has also been a foreign affairs analyst for Fox Television, and has written for publications such as Al-Monitor, The Independent, Haaretz, Jewish Journal, and The Times of Israel. He left Haaretz after it was discovered that he received hundreds of thousands of dollars from Qatar while writing positively about Qatar for the paper. "Even if you've seen one before, it's not the same. This was not a fringe opposition group: it was the government of Israel in all its political splendor, unabashedly showing its true colors. This was the governing coalition in an orgy of anti-state and antidemocratic euphoria."

— Alon Pinkas, in "An Orgy of Jewish Supremacy and Antidemocratic Euphoria, Encouraged by Netanyahu", published in Ha'aretz, 29 January 2024 Furthermore: