Ha'ivri, David

David Ha'ivri came to Israel as a child when his family made aliyah. He spent his teen years in Ma'alot, a development town near Israel's border with Lebanon. He remembers well Israel's retreat from Sinai as part of the peace agreement with Egypt, and living under PLO rocket fire from Lebanon, which brought on the IDF's Operation Peace for Galilee, which became known as the First Lebanon War, in 1982. He, himself, served in the IDF from 1985 to 1988, and then he met and married Mollie. After years of experience in the field of public diplomacy on behalf of Israel and the Jewish communities in