Gabi Gazit ( he, גבי גזית; born November 11, 1947) is an Israeli journalist, television personality and radio host. Gabi Gazit (Gabriel Greenstein), born in

Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...

to a religious family, grew up in

Kfar Yehoshua Kfar Yehoshua ( he, כְּפַר יְהוֹשֻׁעַ, ''lit.'' Joshua's Village) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located between Haifa and Nazareth, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of ...

, a

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in the

Jezreel Valley The Jezreel Valley (from the he, עמק יזרעאל, translit. ''ʿĒmeq Yīzrəʿēʿl''), or Marj Ibn Amir ( ar, مرج ابن عامر), also known as the Valley of Megiddo, is a large fertile plain and inland valley in the Northern Distr ...

. He did his military service in the

Israel Defense Forces The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; he, צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל , ), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym (), is the national military of the Israel, State of Israel. It consists of three servic ...

in a

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special forces unit. Gazit was seriously wounded in a

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explosion during the

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. Gazit has spent much of his media career working for the

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, Israel’s government-funded broadcasting service. He has anchored and hosted many popular

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and

radio Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmit ...

news and current events programs. Currently, he is the host of a 2 hours radio program in Radio Lelo Hafsaka (103FM). Even when he worked in the government-funded media service, Gazit was known for his frank, independent opinions. He often targets government and

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. His program gives voice to the disenfranchised, exposing dishonest practices among government officials and large corporations. He has focused on unreasonably high

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s and the rights of survivors of the

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to receive adequate social services and medical care. His liberal politics have led to criticism from the Israeli right wing. In 2017, four women who were former colleagues made claims of sexual assault by Gazit. Gazit himself denies all wrongdoing.

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