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Yishai Fleisher

Yishai Fleisher is an Israeli broadcaster, podcaster and advocate who has served as the international spokesperson for the Jewish Community of Hebron since 2015.

born 1976Hebron Jewish community spokespersonThe Yishai Fleisher ShowCo-founding Kumah

Occupation: writer, broadcaster, opinion journalist, spokesperson
Party: Jewish Power
Education: Yeshiva University

Yishai Fleisher was born in 1976 in Haifa

Fleisher was born in 1976 in Haifa to Jewish refuseniks from the Soviet Union. The family moved to the United States, where he grew up.

He returned to Israel and studied at the Birkat Moshe yeshiva in Maale Adumim, then served as a paratrooper. He was wounded in Lebanon in 1997. Back in the United States, he earned a political science degree and a law degree at Yeshiva University, and he also received rabbinic ordination.

In 1999 he co-founded Kumah, a group that encourages aliyah. From 2003 he directed English programming at Arutz Sheva, and later broadcast on Galey Yisrael and The Voice of Israel. He hosts the weekly Yishai Fleisher Show podcast.

In 2015 he became the international spokesperson for the Jewish Community of Hebron. In 2016 he opposed the UNESCO move to list the Tomb of the Patriarchs as a Palestinian heritage site. In 2017 he published an opinion piece in the New York Times that drew debate inside the paper.

In 2022 he worked as political advisor and translator for Itamar Ben-Gvir of the Jewish Power party. In 2023 he received the Ari Fuld Lion of Zion Prize.