David Bedein

David Bedein (born August 31, 1950) is an MSW, a community organizer by profession, a writer, and an investigative journalist.^[1] In 1987 he established the Israel Resource News Agency,^[2] with offices at the Beit Agron Int’l Press Center in Jerusalem. He serves as Director of the Center for Near East Policy Research.

Mr. Bedein has also reported for news outlets such as CNN Radio, Makor Rishon, Philadelphia Inquirer, Jerusalem Post,^[3] and the Jewish World Review.,.^[4] For four years, Bedein was the Middle East correspondent for the Philadelphia Bulletin, writing 1,062 articles until the newspaper ceased operation in 2010.^[5]

Focus

Bedein has covered controversial Middle East negotiations in Oslo, Ottawa, Shepherdstown, The Wye Plantation, Annapolis, Geneva, Nicosia, Washington, D.C., London, Bonn, and Vienna. Mr. Bedein is the author of Where Has All the Flour Gone? The Whims and Waste of UN Palestinian Refugee Policy.^[6] The book documents Bedein's years of investigative journalism focusing on the activities of UN agencies in Israel and the Middle East. In particular, Bedein's research has substantiated that UNRWA produces and manages educational programs and textbooks that reinforce the aims of radical Isalmic groups (such as HAMAS) long seeking to destroy the State of Israel. UNRWA denies these assertions.

Activism

Bedein was active in the Israeli peace movement for 17 years.^[7]

In the 1980s, Bedein went to Ethiopia as part of a Canadian Jewish Congress delegation to investigate the impact of the famine on the Falasha Jewish community.^[8]

Research & Media Presence

Mr. Bedein has overseen investigative studies of the Palestinian Authority, the Expulsion Process from Gush Katif and Samaria, The Peres Center for Peace, Peace Now, The International Center for Economic Cooperation of Yossi Beilin, the ISM, Adalah, the New Israel Fund, and United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).^[9]

In November, 2010, Bedein began hosting a weekly radio program, Behind the Scene with David Bedein^[10] providing listeners with unique insight into the daily news in Israel. Behind the Scene airs live every Tuesday from 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Israel time on Israel National Radio.

References

1. ^ Israel: Israel in the international arena by Efraim Karsh, p. 213
2. ^ The Jewish spectator: Volume 57, School of the Jewish Woman, New York, N.Y. 1993
3. ^ http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/SearchResults.aspx?q=David_Bedein
4. ^ http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ajewishworldreview.com%2F+david+bedein
5. ^ http://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/bulletin.cgi
6. ^ http://www.amazon.com/Where-Has-Flour-Gone-ebook/dp/B005MSKTW4
7. ^ Jewish action: Volumes 60-61 Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America - 1999
8. ^ Jewish frontier: Volumes 52-54, League for Labor Palestine, Jewish Frontier Association, 1985
9. ^ http://israelbehindthenews.com/reports.html
10. ^ http://www.archive.org/details/BehindTheSceneWithDavidBedein

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