Robert Socolof
Former Regional Director, AJC Long Island
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Robert Socolof served as Regional Director of AJC Long Island through August 2019.
Robert Socolof, regional director of AJC Long Island, previously held national positions with the Jewish Agency for Israel and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, where he served as manager of media relations. Additionally, Socolof led numerous missions to Cuba and the former Soviet Union, and served as scholar-in-residence for many of these trips. Earlier, he spent seven years in the Israeli Foreign Ministry, working at the Consulate General of Israel in New York and the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations. Socolof was founding editor of IsraelLine, the daily news service of the Consulate.