Nachman Shai
Nachman Shai is a former head of the IDF Spokesperson's Unit of the Israel Defence Forces. He was elected to the Knesset for Kadima in 2009.[1]
Amotz Asa-El wrote in the Jerusalem Post of Shai's time as IDF spokesperson:
- THE IDF Spokesman's Office was usually led by an intelligence officer, until the appointment of Nachman Shai in 1989. A veteran defense reporter for Israel TV, Shai brought an acquaintance with the military, a thorough understanding of journalism and experience with the foreign media earned as a press attache in Washington. This profile proved itself during the first Gulf War as ideal for the position of IDF spokesman, so much so that people wondered why the army had always understood that its OC Medical Corps had to be a doctor and that the air force commander had to be a pilot, but could not understand that its spokesman had to be a journalist. [2]
In July 2012, there was speculation that Shai would join Likud following after Kadima leader Shaul Mofaz withdrew from Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government.[3]
Affiliations
Conferences
- 21st Century Hasbara conference
- Second Herzliya Conference
- Fifth Herzliya Conference
- Eleventh Annual Herzliya Conference
- Twelfth Herzliya Conference
Notes
- ↑ Nachman Shai, Knesset, acessed 26 July 2012.
- ↑ Amotz Asa-El, Middle Israel: The IDF's PR: What went wrong?, Jerusalem Post, 15 February 2007.
- ↑ Gill Hoffman, Right, Left to intensify efforts to carve up Kadima, Jerusalem Post, 24 July 2012.
