Nadav Shragai
Nadav Shragai ({{langx|he|נדב שרגאי}}) is an Israeli author and journalist.
Biography
Nadav Shragai is the grandson of Shlomo Zalman Shragai, who served as mayor of West Jerusalem in the early 1950s.[http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/131980 Pro-Yesha reporter Nadav Shragai leaves Haaretz after 26 yrs] Shragai was a correspondent for Israeli newspaper Haaretz in 1983-2009, covering national security and religious affairs.[https://books.google.com/books?id=y2o9OjOeys8C&dq=nadav+shragai+journalist&pg=PA45 God, Jews and the Media: Religion and Israel’s Media, Yoel Cohen] He has published a number of books on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.{{cite news |author=Hillel Fendel |url=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/131980 |title= Haaretz Loses Token Nationalist |publisher=Arutz Sheva |date=2009-06-21 |accessdate=2014-04-20}}{{cite book |last=Inbari |first=Motti |title=Jewish Fundamentalism and the Temple Mount: Who Will Build the Third Temple |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ls2twPMC1AcC&pg=PA14 |year=2009 |publisher=SUNY Press |isbn=978-1-4384-2623-5 |page=14}}
Shragai's articles on Israeli security issues, international law and related topics have been published by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. His book Temple of Dispute about the Temple Mount was published by Keter Publishing House in 1995
On his deathbed, former Israeli general Uzi Narkiss told Shragai that Shlomo Goren, former Chief Rabbi of Israel, urged him to blow up the Dome of the Rock, known by many in the past as the Mosque of Omar.{{cite book |last=Cohen |first=Rich |title=Israel Is Real: An Obsessive Quest to Understand the Jewish Nation and Its History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vlh7NkD7RHwC&dq=%22Nadav+Shragai%22&pg=PA266 |year=2010 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=978-0-312-42976-8 |page=266}}
Shragai lives in Jerusalem. He is married with five children and one grandchild.
Views and opinions
Haaretz publisher Amos Schocken said that Shragai was a journalist with clear opinions with which he largely disagreed, but "his opinions never influenced his news reporting, which was always professional."[http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/131980 Pro-Yesha Reporter Nadav Shragai Leaves Haaretz After 26 Yrs]
Published works
- Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem{{cite web |author=Nadav Shragai |date=January 2013 |url=http://jcpa.org/understanding-israeli-interests-in-the-e1-area/ |title=Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem |publisher=Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs |accessdate=2014-04-20}}
- The Al-Aksa Is in Danger Libel: The History of a Lie{{cite web |author=Nadav Shragai |url=http://jcpa.org/al-aksa-is-in-danger-libel/ |title=The "Al-Aksa Is in Danger" Libel: The History of a Lie |publisher=Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs |date=2010-03-15 |accessdate=2014-04-20}}
See also
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