Tzahi Gavrieli

Tzahi Gavrieli

Tzahi Gavrieli speaking about Coronavirus and anti-Israel rhetoric. Uploaded to YouTube on 6 May 2020.

Left to right: Tal Rabina, Tzahi Gavrieli, Gilad Erdan, Elan Carr, Rabbi Menachem Margolin at the Behind the Mask report event in Brussels, 25 Sept 2019.

Tzahi Gavrieli speaking at the Legal Network Initiative Conference in Jerusalem which took place 5-7 February 2018.

Asher Fredman, Shimrit Tsubery Heuberger, Gilad Erdan, Stuart Polak, Lior Haimovich, Tzahi Gavrieli, 9 at anti-BDS event in London on 6 September 2016. Uploaded to Facebook by Shimrit Tsubery Heuberger on 6 Sept 16.

Career

Director, National Task Force for Countering Delegitimization, described as the 'ministry’s deputy director general'.

• Director General, Ministry of Strategic Affairs & Public Diplomacy, May 2019 – Present.
• Owner, Tzahi Gavrieli Strategic Consulting, 2011 – May 2016.
• Programming Director, Israeli Presidential Conference, 2011 – May 2014.
• Prime Minister's Office (8 years)
  • Adviser to Prime Minister, 2007 – 2011.
  • Adviser to Cabinet Secretary, 2003 – 2007.
  • Head of the National Management Center during the second Lebanon War, and as one of the cofounders of MASA Project.
• Chairman, IDC Student Association, 2001 – 2002.

Other Roles

Mr. Gavrieli took a major part in the founding of the Israeli National Public Diplomacy Department.

Additionally, Mr. Gavrieli is the owner of a strategic consulting Company and acts as the Director of Programming at the Israeli Presidential Conference.

He is a Battalion Commander in the IDF reserve forces and holds the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.

Education

• Bachelor of Law (LL.B.), The Interdisciplinary Center, 1998 – 2002.
• Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), The Interdisciplinary Center, 1998 – 2002.

Activities

In a 2013 biographical note in HuffPost, Tzahi Gavrieli was described as 'an attorney', who 'has served as an advisor to Israeli Prime Ministers, Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Olmert. During his time in the Prime Minister’s Office he served also as the Cabinet Secretary Adviser, and took a major part in the founding of the National Public Diplomacy department.

He has also 'acted as the Chairman of the Student Association of the Inter Disciplinary Center, Israel (IDC). Currently is the owner of a strategic consulting Company and about to publish a children's book.'

Gavrieli, 43, a lawyer, was Netanyahu’s adviser on content affairs and also worked in the bureaus of prime ministers Ehud Olmert and Ariel Sharon. He was involved in the establishment of the Public Diplomacy Council and before the last election left Netanyahu’s office and worked with Moshe Kahlon on preparing the platform of Kahlon’s party, Kulanu. He took up his current post in the Strategic Affairs Ministry last year [2015].

During the discussion in the Knesset’s transparency committee, Gavrieli said a number of times it would have been better for it to have taken place in a less public forum. According to Gavrieli, the ministry’s role was to “act so the narrative of the State of Israel as the national home of the Jewish people is clear and unquestionable, not among countries nor among audiences, not among progressive liberal audiences, not on campuses, nor among economic decision makers, nor among jurists throughout the world, nor among labor unions and churches. And the second narrative is to stop the phenomenon of delegitimization. And on that matter, there is difficulty speaking in an open forum.”

When Gavrieli was asked what the ministry’s definition of delegitimization was, he said it meant “rallying of organizations and ideas around an existing contemporary issue of rejecting the idea of the State of Israel as the national home of the Jewish people.”

Contact

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tgavrieli/
• Twitter - https://twitter.com/tgavrieli?lang=en