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Life
Dan Mogulof was born on XXX in X. His father is Melvin Mogulof, a Fulbright scholar who has taught both at the National Institute for Social Work Training in London and at Hebrew University. His mother is Milly Mogulof, author of Foiled, Hitler's Jewish Olympian: the Helene Mayer story.

As a 12-year-old, Dan Mogulof first became involved with Young Judea, the oldest Zionist youth movement in the United States. He attended Camp Judea in Northern California, served on mazkirut of the Northern Pacific Coast Region, spent three summers at TY as a camper, kitchen boy, and madrich, and attended Machon/Year Course in 1974-75. He later settled on Kibbutz Ketura, established in 1973 by Young Judea alumni. He is currently one of 24 members of Young Judea's Inaugural Board.

Mogulof graduated from Columbia University (1980-1984) with a Bachelor of Arts in Political science. He is a veteran of the Israeli Defense Forces, and a self-described dual American-Israeli citizen. He is married to Anne Wolf and has a 5-year-old son, Evan.

Early Media Career
Mogulof was a Desk Assistant/Researcher for KGO-TV from 1984-1985. He was an Assignment Editor for KPIX TV and KPIX San Francisco from 1985-1988, and was also an Assignment Manager for CBS (KPIX-TV) during this time.

Career as CBS-TV Bureau Chief
Mogulof spent 12 years as a Producer/Bureau Chief for CBS News (1988-2000), including four years as the Bureau Chief at Tel Aviv, Israel.

After the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, news organizations were competing to buy an amateur videotape of the assassination. Israeli and foreign media orgainzations that wanted to buy the broadcast rights were negotiating with lawyers for the unidentified cameraman. .

Dan Mogulof was called by the camerman's lawyer and given a private viewing. At the original meeting they said they were interested in seven figures. Mogulof indicated he made a much smaller offer. While serving as the CBS bureau chief in Tel Aviv, he was quoted in Mohammed El-Nawawy's The Israeli-Egyptian Peace Process in the Reporting of Western Journalists under the heading "Israel: A Heaven for Western Journalists" as saying:

Israelis have been used to the idea of a free press for over 50 years, and the local Israeli press establishes and protects the tradition of a free flow of information by having a critical view of the government.

Later Media Career
Mogulof was a producer for New York Times Digital from 2000-2002, and served as the Director of National and Regional Production for KVIE from 2002-2004.

Career as UC Spokesperson
Mogulof has served as the Executive Director of Public Affairs for the University of California, Berkeley from 2004 to the present.

On Oak Grove Tree-Sit
On September 12, 2007, university officials declared that they would seek a restraining order in court to expel protesters stained in the oak trees next to Memorial Stadium. Mogulof claimed that fire hazards, falling containers of excrement, and the increase of structures in trees lead the university to request the injunction.

On June 17, 2008, Mogulof said that one of the university's primary concerns is the safety and security of its police officers and the people in the trees, and cited this as the reason the university did not forcibly remove people from the trees on that day.

On July 3, 2008, Mogulof claimed that the UCPD arrested Drew Beres for trespassing and violating a court order, and mentioned that another tree-sitter known as "Dumpster Muffin" came down from the trees to seek medical attention.

Zachary Runningwolf claimed this was because "long exposure and no food or water takes a toll" and "the lighting system and noise (from the power generators) are preventing the ree-sitters from sleeping." He said the fallout of the tree-sitters stemmed from exhaustion and a lack of real food.

On Occupy Cal
After the November, 9, 2011 protest, the Daily Californian obtained almost 140 emails sent between UC Berkeley administrators through a Public Records Act request. One of these emails was an exchange between Dan Mogulof and Charless Minning, in which Mogulof said the following about UCB's attitude towards Occupy:


 * Well, we are once again battening down the hatches for another protest. This time 'round its our pals in that 'Occupy' movement who will be descending on the campus with the slated intention of setting up an encampment on Lower Sproul. (Not gonna happen if we have anything to say about it.) I can't tell you how draining and frustrating this stuff is, and I'd love to put them all on a slow boat to Sacramento.

In response, Minning warned Mugolof to be especially aware of "organizations such as the New Black Panthers and their usual 'socialist' sympathizers" and to "keep track of any UC faculty members who encourage this nonsense and any resulting violence." He expressed concern that the movement was a "build up to what happened at the People's Park riots back in 1969."

Occupy Cal was launched on November 9, 2011. The UCPD responded to non-violent protest and occupation with violence and arrested 39 protesters.

On ROTC
Q: If you got rid of the ROTC program, there would be more money for actual education.

DM: Everybody has a pet program that's a target that they see as being not essential. Obviously the people in the ROTC program think it's essential.

Q: Because of the war and everything. In Iraq, and Afghanistan...

DM: No I understand, I understand. But I think at this point instead of turning on each other and shooting inward it's time to shoot outward. Make the case to Sacramento, the people of California, why preserving this place is important.

On Israeli Apartheid Week
Mogulof responded to a lawsuit filed against UC Berkeley by then-student Jessica Filber for not doing enough to combat anti-semitism on campus by calling it "baseless."

Two Berkeley students filed charges in July 2012 that the annual apartheid week events on campus led to more anti-semitism on campus. University spokesman Dan Mogulof said "the campus protests were constitutionally protected speech and that officials had made extensive efforts to maintain a safe and inclusive climate."

On Divestment from Israel
In response to the Berkeley student government's first attempt to divest from Israel, the Israeli consul in Northern California called the Chancellor's office to request a meeting. While this was not possible at the time, the chancellor's office faxed a letter to Israeli Consul General Avika Tor the same day, in which Chancellor Robert Birgeneau distanced the university from the student government's decision.

The next day, Mogulof wrote to Dean of Students Jonathan Poullard and Dean of Equity and Inclusion Gibor Basri, stating that:


 * The consulate is quite pleased with this approach and understands that issuing a proactive statement to the press at this point would only serve to catalyse coverage that, so far, is non-existent in mainstream media.

Yaman Salahi, a civil rights lawyer in Los Angeles, California, wrote an Al Jazeera piece in which he claimed that these actions are evidence of the Israel lobby's influence on UC campuses, consisting of communications between highest level university administrators and lobbyists in DC at the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, the Zionist Organisation of America, and similar organizations. He noted that nothing on these issues came to administrators from similarly high-profile national community organizations like the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee, the Arab American Institute, the Council for American-Islamic Relations, or the Muslim Public Affairs Council.

On November 27, 2012, Mogulof interviewed UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks regarding his opposition to and criticism of divestment from Israel, in which Dirks stated "I do not support divestment as a strategy for the university. I don’t support divestment with respect to Israel."

On April 18, 2013, Berkeley's student government once again passed a resolution divesting from Israel, specifically from companies affiliated with Israel’s military.

The next day, Mogulof announced that the administration is going to ignore this, saying that "their vote will have no bearing on our investment decisions" because "our chancellor's personal belief is that divestment is not constructive in terms of peace in the Middle East that can and should be progressed with dialogue between parties."

On Power Outage and Explosion
On September 30, 2013, the day Janet Napolitano became President of the UC system, there was an explosion and a power outage on the UC Berkeley campus, and a state of emergency was declared.

Mogulof claimed that the power outage and explosion stemmed from damage to the university's electrical system caused by vandals stealing copper wiring. According to Mogulof, this vandalism was discovered only a few days before the incident, and the explosion was caused by Cal turning on its emergency generators.