“He is in the service of Jared, not Trump,” a staffer said of 30-year-old Avi Berkowitz. “Some people are scratching their heads to watch this guy go from keeping Jared’s schedule and secrets to brokering peace in the Middle East. It’s a big leap”
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At the White House, he has continued to bond socially with Kushner while supporting him in a variety of capacities. One official recalled Kushner and Berkowitz beating since-departed aides Johnny McEntee and Keith Schiller in a game of two-on-two basketball on the White House grounds early in Trump’s term., then-White House spokeswoman Hope Hicks described Berkowitz’s role as fetching coffee and performing other administrative tasks.
Emeritus Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz, a staunch Israel supporter and outside legal adviser to Trump, spent two days holed up at the White House in July 2018, reviewing the peace plan with Kushner and Greenblatt. This spring, when Netanyahu found himself unable to assemble a governing coalition, Dershowitz said Berkowitz sought his advice in follow-up phone calls, as the administration weighed delaying the plan’s release in response to Israel’s political turmoil.
“Could you pull some Middle East expert out of some university or out of a prior diplomatic role? Sure,” said a former senior administration official. “But that whole team isn’t going to trust them. It’s so sensitive.” But if the plan is in fact dead on arrival, Ross said, Berkowitz will be left with something of a mop-up job, tasked with finding areas for incremental progress and trying to prevent the plan’s release from deepening the conflict.
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