IDT Corporation Appoints Former U.S. Senator Slade Gorton To Its Corporate Board of Directors; Gorton Recently Served as a Member of The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (''9/11 Commission'').

NEWARK, N.J. -- IDT Corporation today announced the appointment of the Hon. Slade Gorton to its Corporate Board of Directors. Gorton is a former three-term Senator from Washington State who recently served on The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the "9/11 Commission." IDT Corporation (NYSE:IDT, IDT.C) is an international telecom, entertainment and technology company.

"Slade Gorton served with distinction during an 18 year Senate career. He was also among a select group of respected American leaders the nation turned to for guidance following 9/11," said Jim Courter, IDT's CEO. "I'm proud to welcome Slade to IDT's Corporate Board. He joins a prestigious group of strong, independent IDT Directors who make up the majority of the board that govern IDT."

Mr. Gorton will replace independent Board Director the Hon. William F. Weld, who has left the board to focus on potential political opportunities in New York State.

Slade Gorton served as a U.S. Senator from the State of Washington from 1981 to 1987 and from 1989 until 2001. While in the Senate, he served as the Chairman of the Interior Appropriations Subcommittee (1995-2001), the Commerce Subcommittees on Consumer Affairs (1995-99) and Aviation (1999-2000). In 2001, Mr. Gorton served on the National Commission on Federal Election Reform and from 2002 to 2004 on The National Commission on Terrorists Attacks Upon the United States.

"IDT made its mark in Telecom, established itself in entertainment and is now investing in new opportunities and diversifying into new industries to increase shareholder value," said Howard Jonas, IDT's Chairman. "Slade Gorton's knowledge of industry trends, regulatory issues and his experience on the Commerce and Energy and Natural Resources congressional committees will be an invaluable resource to IDT."

Slade Gorton began his political career in 1959 as a Washington State representative, rising to State House Majority Leader in 1967. In 1968, he was elected Attorney General of Washington State where he argued 14 cases before the Supreme Court. In June 1980, Mr. Gorton received the Wyman Award as "Outstanding Attorney General in the United States."

Slade Gorton joins the other independent members of IDT's Corporate Board of Directors, which includes: Dr. J. Warren Blaker, Professor of Physics at Fairleigh Dickinson University, the Hon. Rudy Boschwitz, former U.S Senator of Minnesota, Saul K. Fenster, President Emeritus of the New Jersey Institute of Technology, the Hon. James S. Gilmore III, former Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Jack F. Kemp, former U.S. Congressman and former Secretary of HUD, Dr. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and a member of President Ronald Reagan's Cabinet and National Security Council and Michael J. Levitt, Chairman and CEO of Stone Tower Capital LLC.

IDT Corporation, through its IDT Telecom subsidiary, is a facilities-based, multinational carrier that provides a broad range of telecommunications services to retail and wholesale customers worldwide. IDT Telecom, by means of its own international telecommunications backbone and fiber optic network infrastructure, provides its customers with integrated and competitively priced international and domestic long distance and domestic all-distance telephony and prepaid calling cards. IDT Entertainment is the IDT subsidiary focused on developing, acquiring, producing and distributing computer-generated and traditionally animated productions and other productions for the film, broadcast and direct-to-consumer markets. IDT Capital is the IDT division principally responsible for the Company's initiatives in brochure distribution, retail energy and new technologies. Net2Phone, Inc., a subsidiary of IDT Corporation, is a provider of high-quality global retail Voice over IP services and offers a fully outsourced cable telephony service to cable operators allowing cable operators to provide residential phone service to their subscribers.

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