Since moving to Israel in 1993 from Manchester, England, I’ve worked in a number of different professional fields, in a wide variety of positions. Common to all of them was the need to communicate clearly and precisely complex information, often to challenging audiences, in an engaging and persuasive manner.
My employment history reads as follows:
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2013-2014 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC-Israel)
Area Head, Regional Development and Local Authorities
2006-2013 Mandel Foundation Israel and Mandel Leadership Institute
Assistant Director, and Head of Digital Learning, of the Mandel Leadership Institute;
Director of Communications of the Mandel Foundation Israel
2003-2006 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
Senior Associate for Individual Donors and Foundations, responsible for overseeing service provided by JDC to US foundations and individual donors.
2001-2003 Amdocs
Training Specialist, responsible for designing, preparing and delivering training packages for Amdocs’ telecommunications billing software.
1996-2001 Freelance
Tour Guide and Informal Educator
1994-1996 World Union of Jewish Students
Educational Coordinator
1993-1994 Horev Yeshiva High School
Mathematics Teacher
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I hold a BSc in mathematics from the University of Leeds, and an MA in public policy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I’m also a qualified tour guide, licensed by the Israeli Ministry of Tourism.
Despite not being a digital native, I’m highly tech- and web-literate. I’m also proficient in management and marcom jargons, although I do try to avoid using them myself.
I’m an avid reader of fiction and non-fiction. Some favorite writers? Since you ask: Richard Dawkins, James Gleick, Steven Pinker and Simon Singh in the sciences; Neil Postman on education and society; Anthony Burgess, Michael Chabon, James Ellroy, Philip Roth, Gary Shteyngart, Donna Tartt and P. G. Wodehouse for fiction; David Foster Wallace and Bill Bryson for sharp and humorous insight into just about any topic, including writing itself (Bryson’s “Troublesome Words” is very much worth owning, and Foster Wallace’s chapter on usage in “Consider the Lobster” is peerless); and in Hebrew, Etgar Keret, Sayed Kashua and Reuven Namdar.