Gad Eitan Lerner ( he, גד איתן לרנר; born 7 December 1954) is an Italian journalist, writer and TV presenter.

Career

In 2000, Lerner served as director of news broadcasts

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for

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but resigned after a selection of pornographic footage was mistakenly aired on prime time during his news broadcast on TG1. Along with his resignation, he revealed that a politician from National Alliance,

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, who also was the president of the

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commission of vigilance regarding the public TV broadcasting service, asked him to favour an acquaintance of his in the TG1. In 2001, Lerner participated in the foundation of new Italian TV channel

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, where he was the first director of the news program ''

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'' for a short time and after he hosted a weekly talk show '' L'Infedele'' until 2012. He left

in 2013 and has since curated and developed other TV programs, including the talk show '' Fischia il vento'' for La EFFE and a documentary series '' Operai'' for

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. In 2010, he was denied visa to Syria, even after his friend and journalist Alix Van Buren defended him: "He often defends the Muslim communities in Italy and their right to have mosques ... he is an independent

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, who doesn't belong to any lobby ..., he signed a petition written by a group of

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which opposes some of the politics of Israeli prime minister

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." In 2007, Lerner was one of the founding members of the

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(PD) in Italy. In 2017, Lerner resigned from the PD in protest against the party's politics over immigration.

Selected bibliography

* 2005: ''Tu sei un bastardo. Contro l'abuso delle identità'' (). * 2009: ''Scintille. Una storia di anime vagabonde'' (). * 2017: ''Concetta. Una storia operaia'' ().

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lerner, Gad 1954 births Living people Italian communists Writers from Beirut Writers from Turin Jewish Italian writers Jewish socialists Italian people of Lebanese-Jewish descent Italian newspaper editors Italian male journalists Lebanese emigrants to Italy 20th-century Italian Jews