Mr. Ron Adam According to the website of the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Israel, Ambassador Ron Adam has served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1990. During his first period at the ministry, he was a personal assistant to the Director-General and dealt mainly with the Oslo Process and the economic peace with the Palestinians. In 1997 he started a long and interesting period of 15 years dealing with all aspect of the United Nations. He started in New York, serving as a counselor for economic and social affairs at the Permanent Mission of Israel. In 2004, two years after his return from New York, he became the director of the UN Department at the Foreign Ministry and engaged mainly with the efforts to promote the relations between Israel with the United Nations, as well as the image of the UN among the Israeli public. As part of these efforts, he initiated the UNGA resolution on Holocaust Remembrance and International Commemoration Day.