Haviv Rettig Gur
Haviv Rettig Gur | |
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חביב רטיג גור | |
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| Born | 4 April 1981 Jerusalem, Israel |
| Citizenship | Israeli |
| Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Employer(s) | The Times of Israel, The Jerusalem Post, Jewish Agency for Israel |
| Spouse | Rachel Gur |
Haviv Rettig Gur (Hebrew: חביב רטיג גור; born April 4, 1981) is an Israeli journalist who serves as the political correspondent and senior analyst for The Times of Israel.[1]
Early life
Haviv Rettig (later Rettig Gur) was born in Jerusalem. His parents were American-Jewish immigrants to Israel. He lived in the United States from 1989 to 1999, returning to Israel in 1999 to serve in the Nahal Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces as a combat medic. Rettig Gur graduated from Hebrew University in 2010.[2]
Career
From 2005 to 2010, Rettig Gur was a journalist at The Jerusalem Post, where he covered stories related to the Jewish world. In June 2010, Rettig Gur was nominated to be the spokesman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, the agency's first native English speaker to be spokesman in over 50 years.[2]
According to the website of the Limmud Conference, where he was a speaker in 2007, Rettig Gur covered "organised Jewish communities worldwide on issues including demographics, identity, antisemitism, education and communal politics... He dealt with Israel's contentious education budget and Israel-NATO relations. He was the Post's chief correspondent to the [annual Israeli security-related] Herzliya Conference."
Views and opinions
Rettig Gur comments regularly on what he sees as the growing divide between Israeli Jewish and American Jewish identity. These two communities constitute 80% of world Jewry, he notes, and their basic identities as Jews are increasingly constructed in radically different ways.[3]
In 2009, the Jewish Agency's Masa project produced an advertisement that claimed that half of Diaspora Jews are assimilating and becoming "lost to us". This drew criticism from overseas, and led Rettig Gur to comment that the disagreement reflected this difference in ways of constructing Jewish identity.[4]
See also
References
- ^ "HonestRporting_2016_Annual_Report-Web.pdf" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 July 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
- ^ a b Ahren, Raphael (2010-06-29). "Jewish Agency Names First Native English-speaking Spokesman". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 2024-04-29. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
- ^ Rettig Gur, Haviv (4 December 2007). "The age of identity". jpost.com. The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on 8 January 2009.
- ^ "Masa is clueless, but it isn't the only one".
External links
- Personal blog (Archived)
- Gur's writings at the Times of Israel
- Ask Haviv Anything, Gur's YouTube channel