Joel
Leyden - Biography
Joel Leyden, a native of New York, has practiced international public relations, public affairs, crisis communications, journalism and Internet marketing for 25 years [1]. Leyden,
whose Zionism goes back to being a war volunteer in the Yom
Kippur War, serves as a media consultant to the Israel Ministries
of Foreign Affairs, Trade, Tourism and Defense. Leyden
has worked as an international media consultant for the Israel
Prime Minister's Office, Ehud Olmert, the prime minister of
Israel [4],
the Israel Ministry
for Foreign Affairs, the Israel
Ministry of Trade and Industry, the Israel
Ministry of Tourism and the Israel
Defense Forces [5][6]
where he was awarded a commendation for his crisis communications
work during Operation Defensive Shield. Leyden served as a media
consultant to the government during Operation Defensive Shield
and when Israeli Astronaut Col. Ilan Ramon perished in the Space
Shuttle Columbia disaster on February 1, 2003. Leyden has also served several times as a humanitarian officer in the Israel Defense Forces and promoted the concept [7] of improving relations with the Palestinians at one of the very few points of contact between Israelis and Palestinians - Israeli security checkpoints.
Leyden also served as senior media advisor to the International Coalition for Missing Israeli Soldiers [8]where he succeeded in having former PA / PLO leader Yasser Arafat admit that he knew where the IDF soldiers were and provided the dogtag of Zaharia Baumel to then Israel Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin [9].
Leyden, who is a professional cross-cultural consultant and served as director for Berlitz's Middle-East cross cultural programs [10] [11] [12], has created dozens of local and international community and professional on-line forums [13] in Yahoo groups and Facebook which today consists of thousands of members. During the IDF Operation Grapes of Wrath Leyden provided free Internet service to the hundreds of Israeli children who were confined to air raid shelters in northern Israel.[14] Joel Leyden, the father of three children, is a leading father's and children's rights activist in Israel advocating equal access and reforms in Israel's gender bias family court custody laws and public child welfare departments for children of separated and divorced parents in Israel. In 2008, Joel created the Family First party and ran for mayor of the city of Ra'anana, Israel. He was not interested in securing the office, but as stated in the Haaretz newspaper, wanted to make father's rights, children's rights and the practicing of gender bias discrimination in Ra'anana's Child Welfare department a campaign issue.
In the States, Leyden was a media advisor to former New York Mayor Ed Koch, former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, Senator Edward Kennedy and the Democratic Party. Joel Leyden coordinated several national media events with personalities including former President Ronald Reagan, Nixon advisor Henry Kissinger and holocaust survivor Elie Weisel[15]. Leyden served on the first board of directors of the Alzheimer's Association in New York City. As a former ski racer and licensed ski instructor, Leyden has promoted the Israeli Mt. Hermon ski resort. Joel Leyden was also responsible for coordinating the first marathon run through the streets of Jerusalem.
Joel Leyden has worked with HIAS, the United Jewish Appeal, the Israel Forum, the Israel Chamber of Commerce, the Association for Missing Israel Soldiers and the Israel Export Institute, served as a senior editor at the Jerusalem Post [16] and as a media advisor to the Israel Government Press Office during the first Gulf War. Leyden covered the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks from New York City for the Jerusalem Post, Israel TV, Israel Radio English news and the Israel News Agency ([17]). Joel Leyden founded the IsraelPr Internet discussion group. This group brings together over 200 public relations and public affairs consultants world wide who are able to provide various Israeli governmental ministries with real-time advice. He is also credited for creating and operating several non-profit on-line community support groups on Yahoo! and Facebook for Israel's Anglo community such as NewRaanana, Israel Anglo Singles, Israel Children , Israel Anglo Homes and Doing Business In Israel. Leyden recently created the first global SEO political contest in response to the Holocaust cartoon contest sponsored by Iran's best selling daily newspaper Hamshahri. [18] There were over 40 million Internet page views indexed by Alexa for this non-profit, SEO contest Website that Leyden built and mass marketed.
Joel, a pioneer in Web 2.0, lectures on the development of Internet marketing and Web 2.0 at Universities in Israel and abroad. Joel Leyden, who has university degrees in journalism, psychology and mass communications, resides in Ra'anana, a suburb north of Tel Aviv, Israel and in New York City. === Global Media Talk About Joel Leyden === McClatchy
Newspaper Group (30 newspapers in North America)
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