Published: 14 June 2022
Last updated: 5 March 2024
The job has been empty for a year. Will Netanyahu adviser Mark Regev take charge of the world’s biggest Jewish not-for-profit?
After a painstaking search for a new leader since last June, the Jewish Agency appears to have found a consensus candidate in former Netanyahu adviser Mark Regev. Right-wing Israeli minister Zeev Elkin is also in the running
With the deadline for appointing a new Jewish Agency leader drawing closer, a consensus candidate appears to have been found: Israel’s former ambassador to the United Kingdom Mark Regev, who has also served as foreign press spokesman to two Israeli prime ministers – Ehud Olmert and Benjamin Netanyahu.
Widely hailed as an articulate spokesperson and expert on public diplomacy, Regev, 62, was for many years one of Israel’s best-known voices on international television. Since the new government was formed last June, he has been employed as a senior visiting fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv.
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Photo: Former Melburnian Mark Regev, now Israel's Ambassador to the United Kingdom (Tolga Akmen/AP/Haaretz)
