Yisrael Medad (born 1947) is an American-born
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
i
journalist
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and author. He was director of Educational Programming and Information resources at the
Menachem Begin Heritage Center
The Menachem Begin Heritage Center is the official state memorial commemorating Menachem Begin, Israel’s sixth Prime Minister. The Center is located on the Hinnom Ridge, overlooking Mount Zion and walls of the Old City of Jerusalem.
Museum
...
in Jerusalem until June 2017 and has retired from that position.
[Yisrael Medad]
He is now engaged in editing an English-language annotated anthology of
Ze'ev Jabotinsky's writings.
Medad was born to a
Jewish
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...
family in
New York City
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. As a teenager, he became religious, and attended a religious high school.
Medad joined the
Betar
The Betar Movement ( he, תנועת בית"ר), also spelled Beitar (), is a Revisionist Zionist youth movement founded in 1923 in Riga, Latvia, by Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky. Chapters sprang up across Europe, even during World War II. After t ...
Zionist youth movement, founded by the
Revisionist Zionist
Revisionist Zionism is an ideology developed by Ze'ev Jabotinsky, who advocated a "revision" of the "practical Zionism" of David Ben-Gurion and Chaim Weizmann which was focused on the settling of ''Eretz Yisrael'' ( Land of Israel) by independent ...
leader, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, in 1964. He graduated from
Yeshiva University
Yeshiva University is a private Orthodox Jewish university with four campuses in New York City.["About YU]
on the Yeshiva Universit ...
with a
BA in
Political Science
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in 1969. In 1970, he and his wife immigrated to Israel. Initially, he lived in the
Jewish Quarter of
Jerusalem
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, where he served as Director of the Betar Students' Hostel. Between 1975 and 1977, he served as a Betar representative in the
United Kingdom
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.
[
In 1981, Medad and his family moved to the ]Israeli settlement
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of Shilo. From 1981 to 1992, he served as a parliamentary aide to Knesset
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member Geula Cohen
Geulah Cohen (;
25 December 1925 – 18 December 2019) was an Israeli politician and activist who founded the Tehiya party. She won the Israel Prize in 2003. Between 1974 and 1992, she served as a member of Knesset, initially for Likud. She chan ...
, and as an Adviser of International Affairs to cabinet minister Yuval Ne'eman
Yuval Ne'eman ( he, יובל נאמן, 14 May 1925 – 26 April 2006) was an Israeli theoretical physicist, military scientist, and politician. He was Minister of Science and Development in the 1980s and early 1990s. He was the President o ...
.[
In 2008, he completed a ]Master's degree
A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice. 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 ...
, specializing in Civic and Democracy Education.[Yisrael Medad]
- Jerusalem Post
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biography
Medad is a member of the Executive Board of Israel's Media Watch.[
Medad has served as Senior Assistant to the Deputy Minister for Science and as a Legislative Aide to ]Knesset
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members. He is a well-known blogger and had contributed columns to the Los Angeles Times
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, Jerusalem Post
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, International Herald Tribune
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and other periodicals.[ He has been interviewed and profiled in the ]BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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.
Medad is co-editor of a collection of the Begin-Sadat correspondence that led up to the
.