Gil Yaron

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Gil Yaron (born April 26, 1973 in Haifa , Israel ) is an Israeli doctor and journalist. Since January 1, 2020, he has served as the head of the North Rhine-Westphalia office for business, science, education, youth and culture in Israel.

Life

Yaron grew up in Düsseldorf . After graduating from high school, he studied at Brown University in Providence , Rhode Island . Yaron is married and lives in Tel Aviv .

Education

In 1993 Yaron began studying medicine at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem . During his studies, Yaron worked intensively on research in the field of molecular biology . After completing his doctorate, he researched the effect of C-reactive protein on the behavior of blood platelets at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem . His research was published in the British Journal of Hematology . Yaron was interested in the Middle East and its problems long before studying medicine . During his studies he began a parallel career as a freelance correspondent for German-language newspapers.

Work as a correspondent

Gil Yaron has been the world's Middle East correspondent since October 2014 . He also publishes in the renowned Israeli daily Ha'aretz . Before that he worked for a number of German, English and Hebrew-language publications, including the Rheinische Post , WAZ , Salzburger Nachrichten and the Tages-Anzeiger . His articles appeared in magazines such as SPIEGEL Geschichte , Damals und Internationale Politik and in the Sunday newspaper of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . On the Internet he wrote for Spiegel Online , among others , until he was poached by Focus . In the English-speaking world, Yaron's articles appeared in the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail , Canada's most important daily newspapers . From 2017 he also wrote for the Straits Times in Singapore. In Israel, his work appeared on ynetnews , Israel's premier news website. As the radio correspondent for dpa-RUFA , his reports reach millions of listeners in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. On television he analyzes the events in the region for the channel N24 , which is now called WELT. He also comments on current events on the i24 News channel and much more. In 2013 he was nominated for the Henri Nannen Prize for an essay in the Sunday newspaper of the Frankfurter Allgemeine .

Books

Gil Yaron has published several books on the Middle East. In publishing CHBeck appeared Jerusalem - a city of historical and political leader , the Austrian Picus Verlag published in the series book tour now three books by Yaron. For the German embassy in Israel he wrote the book Jekkes und Templer , which deals with the German roots of the city of Tel Aviv.

Publications

  • Jerusalem. A historical-political travel guide. Beck, Munich 2009; 3rd edition 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-64956-1 .
  • Jekkes and Templars. German traces in an Israeli metropolis. German Embassy Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv 2010.
  • Reading tour Israel. Party, quarrel and wailing wall. Picus, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85452-989-7 .
  • Reading tour Israel / Palestine. Between Abraham and Ibrahim. Picus, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7117-1020-8 .
  • Reading tour Jerusalem. The prayer as a local call. Picus, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-7117-1047-5 .
  • Shimmering splendor. The Jerusalem of Jesus' time was a Jewish pilgrimage city, the temple its dominant center - and source of prosperity. Spiegel Geschichte 6, 2011, pp. 53–59 [1]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Office of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in Israel starts work | The state portal Wir in NRW. January 10, 2020, accessed January 29, 2020 .
  2. Gil Yaron: Circumcision Debate: Our Strange Tradition , FAZ, July 21, 2012.
  3. Employee of the Week , in: Die Welt from March 7, 2015, accessed on October 31, 2015.