2025-08-09 01:58 PM <br/> Tags: #people #Israel ![[image-67.png|226x345]] # Avi Pazner (1937-) - Longtime Israeli diplomat involved in Israeli media relations and Jewish organizations. - Pazner worked for the Israeli Foreign Ministry as spokesman. - Pazner was Prime Minister [[Yitzhak Shamir]]'s chief spokesman. - Pazner was a public face behind Israeli government media relations regarding the [[Iran-Contra Affair]], the [[Jonathan Pollard]] affair, and the [[First Gulf War]]. - For his PR efforts, prominent American Jewish neocon [[William Safire]] praised Pazner as the best Spokesman of the [[First Gulf War]]. - Pazner served as Israeli ambassador to both Italy and France and was also a counselor at the Washington DC Israeli Embassy. *Embassies and diplomatic missions are the nucleus of covert action in any given country.* - From 1998-2010 Pazner was World Chairman of [[Keren Hayesod]]/[[United Israel Appeal]]. - In this role Pazner would have directly worked with the [[Jewish Agency]]. - Pazner remains on the Keren Hayesod Advisory Board Committee. - Pazner is now a political commentator for Israeli media which is notably broadcasted in English among other non-Hebrew languages. *This means his role is still that of PR for the non-Israeli world.* #### References - Keren Hayesod–United Israel Appeal. “Avi Pazner Appointed World Chairman of Keren Hayesod.” Press release, 1998. - Keren Hayesod – United Israel Appeal. “Amb. Avi Pazner.” _Keren Hayesod – United Israel Appeal_, accessed August 9, 2025. https://www.kh-uia.org.il/about-us/governors/avi-pazner/ - “Avi Pazner.” _Wikipedia_, last modified February 21, 2024. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avi_Pazner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avi_Pazner). - Keren Hayesod – United Israel Appeal. “Governors.” [https://www.kh-uia.org.il/about-us/governors/](https://www.kh-uia.org.il/about-us/governors/).