David Bar-Illan

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David Bar-Illan (February 7, 1930 – November 5, 2003) was an Israeli pianist, author and

newspaper editor
.

Biography

Bar-Illan was born in

1948 Arab-Israeli War
.

Bar-Illan died in Jerusalem in 2003 at age 73, from complications of a heart attack he had suffered three years earlier. He was survived by his wife, three children, two stepchildren, and a younger sister.[citation needed]

Music career

In 1950, he graduated from the Juilliard School and settled in the United States, regularly touring internationally as a concert artist. His London debut was at the Wigmore Hall in 1953.

University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and at the Mannes College of Music (now the Mannes School of Music). Bar-Illan had a successful career as a concert pianist that lasted more than fifty years, and he played with every major orchestra in the US and in Europe. His long association with composer Robert Starer led to Starer's dedication of several works to Bar-Illan.[citation needed
]

Journalism and media career

In the 1960s,

Saturday Evening Post, and was a regular opinion contributor to U.S. newspapers, notably as a vocal advocate for Israel and Soviet Jewry. From 1990 to 1992, he served as Executive Editor of The Jerusalem Post, Israel's leading English-language newspaper, and was a regular columnist from 1992 to 1996.[citation needed
]

In 1996, he became Director of Communications and Policy Planning for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, serving until 1999. During this period, he served as the State of Israel's key spokesman with the foreign media, appearing in hundreds of television and radio interviews. In 1999, he returned to the Jerusalem Post as an occasional columnist.[citation needed]

Legacy

To honor the memory and legacy of Bar-Illan, friends and family helped establish an annual event, The David Bar-Illan Conference on the Media & the Middle East, at the

Ariel University Center of Samaria. The forum, held every November in Israel, is a full-day academic conference on media relations and ethics.[citation needed
]

References

  1. ^ "David Bar-Illan (Piano) – Short Biography". www.bach-cantatas.com. Retrieved January 30, 2019.

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