Yishai Fleisher

Yishai Fleisher is an Israeli radio broadcaster and international spokesman for the Jewish community in Hebron, an Israeli radio show host, and writer. Fleisher is a contributing editor at JewishPress.com and the founder and director of "Kumah" – a nonprofit dedicated to strengthening Israel's global narrative through strategic communications. Fleisher was also the Director of Programming and a broadcaster at the Voice of Israel network, which operated between 2014 and 2015.

Fleisher was born in Israel to Jewish Refuseniks from the Soviet Union. When he was a child, his family moved to the United States, and he grew up in New Jersey. . At the age of 17, Fleisher returned to Israel and served as a paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces. He continues to participate in an active battlefield reserve unit.

After being injured in Lebanon during his military service, Fleisher returned to the US where he completed an undergraduate degree in political science at Yeshiva University, and a Juris Doctorate at the Cardozo School of Law. Fleisher received his rabbinic degree from Kollel Agudat Achim in Jerusalem. In 2002, he married Malka Bennett, who had been a classmate of his, at the Cave of the Patriarchs. A year later, the couple returned to Israel and settled in the settlement of Beit El. In 2011, they moved to Jerusalem. Fleisher and his wife have three children.

Yishai is currently producing and hosting "The Yishai Fleisher Show", a daily analysis and interview talk show focused on Israeli and Middle East politics, culture, Jewish history, and tradition. The show aired weekdays on the now defunct Voice of Israel network where Yishai was Program Director.

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