777peso Steven J. Rosen, Fiercely Influential Advocate for Israel, Dies at 82
Steven J. Rosen, a hawkish supporter of Israel who strengthened the clout of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a Washington lobbying group, but whose career was derailed when he was charged with leaking government secrets, a case that was later dropped, died on Oct. 28 near his home in Silver Spring, Md. He was 82.
His partner, Barbara Schubert, said his death, in a memory-care center, was from complications of Alzheimer’s disease.
Mr. Rosen was a prominent behind-the-scenes figure in Washington as the director of foreign policy issues for AIPAC, as the pro-Israel group is known, from the 1980s to the early 2000s. He forged ties with officials in the State Department and the White House to promote American support for Israel.
He was known as a brainy, aggressive advocate, and his private life was as changeable as his moods: He was married and divorced six times.
“He’s a mercurial character, very intense, very smart, in many ways brilliant, but somewhat misanthropic,” Martin S. Indyk, a former ambassador to Israel, whom Mr. Rosen advised on a doctoral dissertation, told The Washington Post in 2006. (Mr. Indyk died in July.) “His personality is so intense that he can be off-putting to people, especially among the gray suits of a bureaucracy.”
Mr. Rosen had worked for AIPAC for 23 years when, in 2005, under the World War I-era Espionage Act, he was charged with sharing secret national security information that he had received from government officials with journalists and the Israeli Embassy.
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