Alan D. Abbey is a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, where he was previously Director of Internet and Media and managed media relations, content creation, live video programming, and Institute websites.

Alan joined the Hartman Institute after a 30-year career in journalism in the U.S. and Israel. Prior to joining the Institute, he founded Ynetnews, the English website of Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel’s largest media company, and was Executive Vice President at the Jerusalem Post and Editor-in-Chief of JPost.com.

He is Ethics Lecturer for the YaLa Young Leaders Program Getty School of Citizen Journalism in the Middle East and North Africa, which is training young adults to be citizen journalists.

Alan has a Master’s Degree in Journalism from the University of Oregon. He is a native of Brooklyn, NY, and lives in Jerusalem with his wife and three children.