Israel appoints new tourism commissioner for US
Israel has just announced Jerusalem-born Uri Steinberg as the next tourism commissioner, North America.
Effective this month, he takes over from Haim Gutin who has now returned to the tourism ministry’s Jerusalem head office after five years at the helm in New York.
Steinberg has been leading the North American tourism marketing department from the Jerusalem office and has also promoted tourism to Israel from Scandinavia and Holland.
From 2007 to 2011, he led the Israel Government tourist office in Chicago, promoting Israel tourism to 13 US states.
Prior to joining the tourism ministry in 2005, Steinberg spent four years as senior assistant to the spokesperson of the Israel ministry of justice and attorney general.
He hails from the village of Neve Ilan in the Jerusalem Hills and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism and geography from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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