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Dr. Michael Harari

Biography Originally from Australia, Dr. Michael Harari moved to northern Israel in 2011, in search of a quieter life, and some goats. However, when Ziv Hospital, where Dr. Harari works as a pediatrician started receiving the first of…

Simon Plosker
June 23, 2015
12:00 am

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Biography

Originally from Australia, Dr. Michael Harari moved to northern Israel in 2011, in search of a quieter life, and some goats. However, when Ziv Hospital, where Dr. Harari works as a pediatrician started receiving the first of hundreds of victims of Syrian fighting, he knew that his life was about to change.

A graduate of Melbourne’s Mount Scopus College, Harari’s grandparents hail from Syria and Egypt. His first visit to Israel in 1974 was “infection at first sight” and in the 1980s he made aliyah, serving in the Golan during the first Lebanon war before working at Hadassah Hospital.

A Hebrew and Arabic speaker, Dr. Harari returned in 1996 to see his family and take up a job offer of senior pediatrician at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. But Israel kept calling him home. “When I came back this time I was determined to work in a small hospital. I was determined to work somewhere where I could do something useful.” Today, Dr. Harari lives in Rosh Pina with his baby son… and a few goats.

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Simon Plosker

With over two decades of experience in various non-governmental organizations in the UK and Israel, Simon Plosker returned to HonestReporting in October 2022 as Editorial Director having previously been part of the organization’s management team from 2005 to 2020. Prior to his first spell at HonestReporting, Simon worked in Israel for NGO Monitor, BICOM, and served for a short period in the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit. He was Managing Editor of the Geneva-based NGO United Nations Watch for two years before moving back to the frontline defending Israel from media bias. Simon has a BSoc.Sc in International Studies and Political Science from the University of Birmingham and an MSc in History of International Relations from the London School of Economics. He immigrated to Israel in 2001 from London.

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