Efraim Cohen's career as a U.S. diplomat spanned nearly 25 years, and included assignments to London, Capetown, La Paz, Tel Aviv, and Baghdad. He retired from the diplomatic corps after his second tour in Tel Aviv - as Cultural Attache - and now lives permanently in Israel, where he is a Senior Fellow at Bar-Ilan University's Center for International Communications, and a Fellow at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism. He is also an adviser to the U.S. Department of State's Office of Civil Rights. Mr. Cohen writes on Israel, the Middle East and public diplomacy.