Please join host Amir Oren for an interview with Minister for Jewish Diaspora Affairs Nachman Shai, who is likely Israel’s foremost authority on military-media relations. If this issue has four or five angles to it, Shai has seen it from six.
Prior to entering politics, then-Brigadier General Shai was a member of the General Staff when he was appointed IDF Spokesperson, best known for calming a concerned nation during a barrage of Iraqi missile fire on Israel in the 1991 First Gulf War.
Shai has also served as a combat correspondent, Spokesman for Israel’s United Nations Mission and Washington Embassy, Media Advisor to Defense Ministers Moshe Arens and Yitzhak Rabin, Head of IDF Radio, abroadcast executive, Visiting Professor at two of America’s best universities, as well as the author of a book and PhD thesis on the media-military nexus.
