Moshe Pearlman
Moshe Pearlman (1911-1986) was 'editor of the Zionist Review in the 1930's, working out of the London offices of the Jewish Agency. He spent a year in a kibbutz in 1936 and subsequently published his first book, Collective Adventure in 1938.' Pearlman 'had served with the British army in Greece with David Kessler before becoming a Haganah spokesman' in the 1940s.[1]
He went on to become 'a well-known author, the first Israel Defense Force official spokesman, founder and first director of the Israel Government Press Office, and an early director of Israel Radio', He 'was a close adviser to Prime Minister David Ben Gurion. He was recalled to the army in the Six Day War, when he served with his friend, Moshe Dayan.'[2]
According to the Jerusalem Report George Weidenfeld 'kept the late Moshe Pearlman in work for two decades as ghostwriter (to Yadin, Dayan and Kollek) and popular historian. '[3]
Notes
- ↑ David Cesarani The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry, 1841-1991, Cambridge University Press, 1994, p. 194
- ↑ Moshe Pearlman Dead at 75, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 7 April 1986.
- ↑ Eric Silver 'THE RINGMASTER RETIRES' The Jerusalem Report January 2, 1992, Pg. 43
