About

Isracast Team

• Avi Yaffe Co-Founder & Executive Producer

  

  Avi Yaffe is probably one of Israel’s most recognized and respected personalities in the studio and sound recording industry. A native of Israel, Avi is a 40-year veteran of the recording industry.

  His dramatic recordings from a Suez Canal bunker during the Yom-Kippur War of 1973 garnered international attention. Those recordings, which are featured on the IsraCast homepage, have once again drawn world attention during this 30-year anniversary of the war. Since 1963, when he founded his Jerusalem Recording Studio, Avi has been servicing the broadcast needs of professional journalists, recording and transmitting feeds to radio stations all over the world.

• Avi Yaffe Jerusalem Recording Studios Studio Production and Digital Remastering

  

  Avi Yaffe Jerusalem Recording Studios, Israel’s leading recording and broadcast facilities, provides all of IsraCast’s recording, post-production and transmitting needs.

  Located in Jerusalem, Avi Yaffe Jerusalem Recording Studios offers two fully-equipped, state-of-the-art studios, top-of-the-line broadcasting and editing equipment and a seasoned team of audio technicians. It offers a full range of broadcast options–from pre-recordings to live broadcasts–and its services can be tailored to every conceivable format.

• David Essing Senior Correspondent & News Analyst

  

  David Essing is one of the best known and most experienced English-language reporters in Israel. For more than 30 years, he has been at the heart of breaking news events, through Israel’s wars and peace-making. An IDF combat veteran, Essing was sent to cover the Yom-Kippur War on the Golan Heights in 1973. In addition to reporting from the front lines, he and several colleagues captured seven Syrian soldiers during the fighting on the road to Damascus.

• Mordechai I. Twersky Co-Founder

  

  Mordechai I. Twersky is a co-founder of IsraCast. His career in journalism has spanned print, radio, television and new media. A native of New York City, Mordechai arrived in Israel in 1998. Most recently, Mordechai hosted the daily “Newsmakers” interview program for Jerusalem Post Radio. Prior to that, he was Editor of Streaming Media for Virtual Jerusalem, where “Newsmakers” first made its internet debut. He has reported for The New York Times; has served as a television broadcast reporter for a number of U.S. cable outlets; and also reported for The Jewish Week in New York City. An alumnus of Yeshiva University in New York City, Mordechai graduated with honors from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 1997. He is the scion of the 250-year Twersky-Heschel Eastern European rabbinic-Hasidic dynasty tracing its roots to Chernobyl, Ukraine.

• Rivki Matan Communications & Website Manager, Reporter

  

  Rivki serves as system manager, overseeing the IsraCast website and its various multimedia facets.

  A veteran “olah chadasha” (new immigrant) from the United States, Rivki is passionate about sharomg the many important aspects of Israel with fellow Americans and the world. Rivki helps with translation and also contributes technology and innovation articles to IsraCast.

   

• Talia Adar Consultant and International Relations

  

  Talia Adar serves as a consultant for IsraCast and oversees the International Relations department.

  Talia immigrated to Israel from the U.S. and currently resides in Jerusalem.

  Since 1993, Talia has been with the Israeli Police Reserves, working in both the patrol and undercover units. She is currently the Operations Officer for the Civil Guard, Zion Station, Jerusalem Region in a Reservist capacity.

  Talia has worked in television, film, and radio production in Los Angeles, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem; and worked at the Jerusalem Post in various capacities for a number of years. She is currently the Director of Operations for Protect – Israeli Security Solutions, and is also involved with theInternational Intelligence Summit, a not-for-profit organization that brings together intelligence agencies of the free world and the emerging democracies to share ideas in the common war against terror.

• Mufid Salah IsraCast adviser on the Druze community

  

  Mufid Salah is a native Druze who lives in the village of Sajur and an IDF reserve lieutenant colonel. He was a vice-governor in the city of Beit Lehem, governor of the Jordan Valley and Jericho and currently he is the head of land registration office in Ariel. He is also a member of ‘Tzevet’ – the IDF veterans association in the north Galilee and a member in the science school for the Druze community in Yarka. Mufid Salah is married and has eight children.

   

• Yael Yaffe Graphic Design, Marketing & Production

  

  A native of Jerusalem, Yael is an accomplished graphic designer who studied at the Avni Institute-College for Art and Design in Tel Aviv. She also has taken courses in web design at “Mentor” in Tel Aviv. Yael has worked closely with IsraCast since its inception, creating dynamic graphics and compelling presentations. At Avi Yaffe Jerusalem Recording Studios, where she has worked since 1994, Yael serves as Director of Marketing and Graphic Design. She is responsible for the production and design of the Studio’s colorful website, www.aviyaffe.com.

   

• Tomer Yaffe Scientific Adviser & Science-Technology Editor

  

  Tomer Yaffe serves as a scientific adviser and chief editor of the Science & technology section. A native of Jerusalem, he is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, having studied physics and cognitive science.

   

• Amit Shabi Photographer

  

   

   

• Sasson Tiram Photographer

  Sasson Tiram has been a photojournalist in Israel for 24 years. He has an extensive experience with all aspects of photojournalism and public relations and has developed a specialty in photography of Jerusalem. Sasson graduated from the Hadassah College of Photography in 1978. Following his army service he was in charge of a photography laboratory for the Israeli Air Force. Several years later Sasson became one of the owners and managers of a large photojournalism agency in Jerusalem. At that time the agency was the sole supplier of photography of Jerusalem area for the largest communication group in Israel “Yediot Ahronot”. Today Sasson owns and manages a private photojournalism agency “Sasson Tiram Photography LTD,” in Jerusalem.