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Dorit Golender is the Vice President of Community Relations for the Genesis Philanthropy Group. She took the position after serving for five years as the Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the State of Israel to the Russian Federation (2010-2015).
She also was a broadcast journalist known as Shlomit Lidor to Russian listeners.
Golender is from
Vilnius
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,
Lithuania
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and emigrated to Israel with her family in 1967.
Career
Journalism
While a student at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...
(studying English and Sovietology), Golender began working as an announcer in the Russian Division of the
Voice of Israel
Voice of Israel was a Jerusalem-based private global broadcast network staffed by media professionals with a Zionist and often religious orientation, who saw their mission in pro-Israel advocacy (''hasbara'') and combating the global pro-Palesti ...
. She was Director and Chief Editor of
Radio REKA for almost 15 years, starting in 1991.
References
Ambassadors of Israel to Russia
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Diplomats from Vilnius
Israeli consuls
Living people
Israeli women journalists
Israeli radio journalists
Soviet emigrants to Israel
Israeli women ambassadors
Year of birth missing (living people)
Lithuanian Jews
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