Elias Zananiri
- Vice- Chairman, PLO Committee for Interaction with the Israeli Society
- Policy Advisor/ Media & PR Consultant
- Journalist since 1977
- Television Producer: News | Features | Documentaries | Movies
- Former Political Advisor & Media Consultant: Spokesman: Palestinian National Authority’s Ministry of Interior & Internal Security
- Former Political Advisor & Media Consultant: Palestinian National Authority’s Minister of Justice
- Languages: Arabic | English | Hebrew
Media Experience:
1977 - 1980 Deputy Editor of Al Fajr, Arabic daily published in East Jerusalem
1980 – 1988 Editor | Palestine Press Services (News Agency) & Al Awdah English weekly in East Jerusalem
1988 – 2003 TV Producer & Senior Management Positions with foreign television networks and channels
2000 – 2001 Head, TV Training Unit at the Media Training Institute, Birzeit University
2007 TV Correspondent, Russia Today.
2008 – 2010 CEO, Palestine Tomorrow, a private TV Channel in Ramallah
Official Titles & Political Activism:
2003 Spokesman, PNA Ministry of Interior & Internal Security
2009 – 2011 Policy Advisor & Media Consultant, PNA Minister of Justice
2003 – 2007 Director General, Palestinian Peace Coalition, PPC -- a semiofficial Palestinian organization to promote the two-state solution for the Arab- Israeli conflict.
Throughout all of his years in the field of media/ politics, participated in numerous lectures and joint appearances before Israeli audience advocating a the two-state solution for the Arab-Israeli conflict based on the 1967 borders.
2013- Present Deputy-Chairman, PLO Committee for Interaction with the Israeli Society.
Education: BA in Political Science, Somali National University (1980)
Languages: Arabic (native) | English (fluent) | Hebrew (fluent)
Personal Info: Married + | Born in 1954 | Driving License since 1972.
Sessions in which Elias Zananiri participates
Inbal Hotel - Zion Ballroom
MK Hilik Bar, Zionist Union (Participant)
John Rosove, CCAR Israel Convention (Participant)
Rueven Hazan, Chair, Department of Political Science at Hebrew University (Moderator)
Elias Zananiri, PLO Committee for Interaction with the Israeli Society (Participant)