BANGOR – The vice consul of Israel, Anat Gilead, will speak at 7:15 p.m. Friday at Beth Israel Synagogue on York Street.

Joining the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1995, Gilead was appointed secretary at the Israeli embassy in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in 1997.

She has coordinated programs for Israel’s International Development Cooperation Program in agricultural, rural regional and community development; environmental protection; and medicine.