Haviv Rettig Gur
Haviv Rettig Gur () (b. April 4, 1981) is an Israeli journalist who serves as the political correspondent and senior analyst for The Times of Israel. Early life Haviv Rettig (later Rettig Gur) was born in Jerusalem. His parents were American-Jewish immigrants to Israel. He lived in the United States from 1989 to 1999, returning to Israel in 1999 to serve in the Israel Defense Forces as a combat medic. Upon completing military service, Gur studied history and Jewish thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Media career From 2010 to 2012, Rettig Gur served as the Director of Communications for the Jewish Agency. Before that, he was the Jewish world correspondent for the Israeli English-language daily The Jerusalem Post between June 2005 and July 2010. According to the website of the Limmud Conference, where he was a speaker in December 2007, Gur covered "organised Jewish communities worldwide on issues including demographics, identity, anti-Semitism, education and communal politics... He dealt with Israel's contentious education budget and Israel-NATO relations. He was the Post'''s chief correspondent to the [annual Israeli security-related] Herzliya Conference." Gur's reporting focused on trends in Jewish identity, especially in the United States and Israel. Views and opinions He