Yisrael Medad (born 1947) is an American-born Israeli journalist and author. He was director of Educational Programming and Information resources at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem until June 2017 and has retired from that position.[1] He is now engaged in editing an English-language annotated anthology of Ze'ev Jabotinsky's writings.
Medad was born to a Jewish family in New York City. As a teenager, he became religious, and attended a religious high school.[2] Medad joined the Betar Zionist youth movement, founded by the Revisionist Zionist leader, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, in 1964. He graduated from Yeshiva University with a BA in Political Science in 1969. In 1970, he and his wife immigrated to Israel. Initially, he lived in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem, where he served as Director of the Betar Students' Hostel. Between 1975 and 1977, he served as a Betar representative in the United Kingdom.[3]
In 1981, Medad and his family moved to the Israeli settlement of Shilo. From 1981 to 1992, he served as a parliamentary aide to Knesset member Geula Cohen, and as an Adviser of International Affairs to cabinet minister Yuval Ne'eman.[3]
In 2008, he completed a Master's degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in Civic and Democracy Education.[3]
Medad is a member of the Executive Board of Israel's Media Watch.[1]
Medad has served as Senior Assistant to the Deputy Minister for Science and as a Legislative Aide to Knesset members. He is a well-known blogger and had contributed columns to the Los Angeles Times, Jerusalem Post, International Herald Tribune and other periodicals.[1] He has been interviewed and profiled in the BBC[4] and Haaretz.[5]
Medad is co-editor of a collection of the Begin-Sadat correspondence that led up to the 1979 Israel-Egypt peace treaty.[5][6]
Medad and his wife have five children.[3]
^ abcYisrael Medad, Ariel Center for Policy Research [he]
^"Americans for and in Jerusalem".
^ abcdYisrael Medad - Jerusalem Post biography
^HARDtalk - Yisrael Medad, 21-05-13, BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/05_may/21/hardtalk_yisrael_medad.shtml
^ ab"A conversation with Yisrael Medad", David B. Green, March 3, 2011, Haaretz http://www.haaretz.com/culture/books/questions-and-answers-a-conversation-with-yisrael-medad-1.346893
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with Eli Joseph with the assistance of Eric Graus and George Evnine. YisraelMedad of the World Betar Movement arrived in the UK in 1975 and built a winter...
shekels (nearly $80,000) to the community for slander. Eli Pollak; YisraelMedad (16 March 2003). "The accomplice". The Jerusalem Post. p. 3. Nadav Zeevi...
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Medad had remained in camp, yet the spirit rested on them, and they spoke in ecstasy in the camp. When a youth reported to Moses that Eldad and Medad...
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Promised Land: A Tale of the Israelis and Palestinians. pp. 17–18. Medad, Yisrael. "Jerusalem's Temple Mount: A Jewish-Muslim Flashpoint". Netiv online...
David. Brookings Institution Press. pp. 94–. ISBN 978-0-8157-2052-2. Medad, Yisrael, ed., Hurwitz, Zvi Harry, ed. Peace in the Making The Menachem Begin...
Sadat. Wm Collins & Sons & Co. ISBN 978-0-394-53136-6. Hurwitz, Harry; Medad, Yisrael (2010). Peace in the Making. Gefen Publishing House. ISBN 978-965-229-456-2...
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Muqata, JoeSettler, Harry Maryle's Emes ve-Emuna, @IsraelShield, Batya Medad's Shiloh Musings, Frimet and Arnold Roth's This Ongoing War, David Israel...
(Ένακεὶμ Septuagint rendering of ; ib. i. 10). According to "Gelilot Ereẓ Yisrael" (quoted in "Seder ha-Dorot," i. 118, Warsaw, 1889), Micah was buried in...
(2017). Prophets in Islam. Notion Press. ISBN 9781946822680. Feinhandler, Yisrael Pesach, Beloved Companions, Vayetze - III, "Jealousy Can Be a Tool for...
Lustick on the Two State paradigm". Foundation for Middle East Peace. Medad, Yisrael (May 2020). "Book Review/ Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to...
Restoring Courage Recap Part 3, GlennBeck.com, August 22, 2011 Pollak, Eli; Medad, Yisrael (Israel's Media Watch) (August 24, 2011), Media Comment: The anti-Beck...
[Orthodox Encyclopedia] (in Russian). Jastrow et al. 1906. Gelilot Eretz Yisrael, as quoted in Heilprin's "Seder ha-Dorot," ed. Wilna, i. 127, 128; variant...
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