Gideon Remez


Gideon Remez is an Israeli journalist and an analyst on post-Soviet affairs.

Biography

Gideon Remez was born in Tel Aviv on June 2, 1946. His father, Aharon Remez, was an Israeli diplomat and military officer who served as the second commander of the Israeli Air Force. His grandfather, David Remez, was an Israeli politician who was a signatory to the Israeli Declaration of Independence.

Career

Remez headed the foreign news desk at the Voice of Israel. He is a fellow of the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He was a recipient, joint with Isabella Ginor, of the 2008 Book Prized by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy for the book Foxbats over Dimona.
In 1993 he received also the Nahum Sokolov Award for broadcast journalism. In 1999 he received the Joint Distribution Committee’s Boris Smolar Award for coverage of Israel-Diaspora relations. In 2000 he received the honorable mention in the B'nai B'rith Wolf Matsdorf Journalism Awards.

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