Noam Bedein
Noam Bedein is a director of the Sderot Media Center. It is a media advocacy center which portrays the human face of Sderot and southern Israel under siege, to the international media and public. Noam, a native of Tzfat, grew up in Efrat, Israel. After finishing the Beit El Yeshiva High School, Noam learned at a pre-Army training program in the Jordan Valley and then served for three years as an IDF sergeant for an artillery scout unit along the Lebanese border. After the army, Noam served as an emissary for The Jewish Agency in Boston, Massachusetts and then traveled for a year in the Far East.
Upon his return to Israel, Noam relocated to Sderot and pioneered the “Sderot Media Center for the Western Negev Ltd", which has spawned the Sderot Media Center. In this position, Noam is a photojournalist, lecturer and gives briefings to foreign government officials, embassies, foreign press and student groups from around the world.
A “Disproportionate” Victim in Sderot
This article is dedicated to the memory of Yakov Yaakobov Z"L, a husband and father of two young boys, murdered by a Qassam rocket...
‘ZIONIST PROPAGANDIST’: Dialogue or Demonization?
October 2010 was my fifth tour of college campuses in the United States. This tour was facilitated by CAMERA and the ZOA.
It has been...
The Sderot Perspective on ME negotiations
During my travels around the world, I've encountered many people who tell me they sympathize with Sderot and Western Negev residents. Too often these...
Will New Middle East Negotiations Trigger The Next IDF Incursion into Gaza?
Palestinian armed forces have fired 19 rockets, missiles and mortars from Gaza into Sderot and surrounding farming communities in Israel's Western Negev region since...
Hamas, vänsterns inklusive de “kristna” broderskaparnas favorit
Varje annan dag, hade anläggningen på Sapir campus varit fullsmockad med barn, och förlusterna skulle ha varit förödande. Och Gazas befolkning hade dansat på...
First Person: When a rocket hits a child therapy center
On any other day, the facility on the Sapir campus would have been packed with kids, and the losses would have been devastating.
The child...
Om å finne en oase med støtte til Israel blant kristne sionister
Som direktør av Sderot Media Center, har jeg funnet ut hvor viktig det er å komme tett på når jeg snakker med studenter og...
Finding an Oasis of Israel Support Among Christian Zionists
As the director of Sderot Media Center, I find it is important to speak at eye-level to university students and other young audiences and...
In the 90th minute of the PR game, does Israel have a last shot...
Israel's legitimacy as an independent Jewish state is being undermined and threatened like never before, especially in Europe.
This became apparent during a short journey...
The moral dilemmas of protecting Ashkelon
Recent protests by Ashkelon residents and the local PTA in demanding full rocket protection for school buildings across the city put us at the...
