GIL HOFFMAN

Gil Hoffman is a veteran Israeli-American journalist who teaches political strategy and international communications at Israel's College of Management. He served as the executive director of the media watchdog HonestReporting and for 24 years as chief political correspondent and analyst for The Jerusalem Post, where he remains a regular columnist.

 

Raised in Chicago, he served in the IDF Spokesman's Unit and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Northwestern University's School of Journalism. The Algemeiner website recently named him one of the top 100 people positively influencing Jewish life, alongside world and Jewish leaders.

 

He's lectured in all major English-speaking countries in the world, more than half the Canadian provinces, and made history in Hawaii by becoming the first Israel speaker to have lectured in all 50 states. He lives with his family in Jerusalem.