Biography
David Olesker studied at Sunderland Polytechnic College. After making Aliyah to Israel in 1982, he worked with the World Zionist Organization’s Educational Resource Center, where he helped pioneer the application of informal education techniques to training advocates for Israel. In 1989, he founded an independent organization called ICAP in order to bring these techniques to a wider audience. JCCAT, the Jerusalem Center for Communications and Advocacy Training, builds on ICAP’s work to further refine and disseminate these techniques. He has worked with Israel’s diplomats, emissaries of the World Zionist Organization and Jewish Agency, Jewish student and community activists around the world, and the staff of such organizations as the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai Brith (ADL) and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee AIPAC). He is married with nine children and several grandchildren.
Topics for HR Missions
- “Shaping Israel’s Image: How to be an Effective Advocate” (July 2011, May 2012, Nov 2013, May 2014, Dec 2014)
