Haviv Rettig Gur | |
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חביב רטיג גור | |
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| Born | (1981-04-04)4 April 1981 (age 44) 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 forThe Times of Israel.[1]
Haviv Rettig (later Rettig Gur) was born inJerusalem. His parents wereAmerican-Jewishimmigrants to Israel. He lived in the United States from 1989 to 1999, returning to Israel in 1999 to serve in theNahal Brigade of theIsrael Defense Forces as a combat medic. Rettig Gur graduated fromHebrew University in 2010.[2]
From 2005 to 2010, Rettig Gur was a journalist atThe Jerusalem Post, where he covered stories related to the Jewish world. In June 2010, Rettig Gur was nominated to be the spokesman of theJewish Agency for Israel, the agency's first native English speaker to be spokesman in over 50 years.[2]
According to the website of theLimmud 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 thePost's chief correspondent to the [annual Israeli security-related]Herzliya Conference."[citation needed]
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]