András Pátkai

András Pátkai is the European Director of the Israel Allies Foundation (appointed July 2013). A Hungarian national he was formerly the CEO of the TV channel ATV Hungary from 2003 - 2005. The website of the Israel Allies Foundation provides the following biography:

András heads the European operations of the IAF based in Brussels. He has a strong background in international affairs, both in business and in political activities. András holds an MA in English history, literature, and linguistics, along with a degree in education from ELTE University, Budapest, where he studied Hebrew, Jewish history, and culture at the Center of Jewish Studies of the same university. After his study, Andras spent a year working and studying in Israel. As a certified real estate consultant and appraiser, and former CEO of a leading commercial television station, he is successfully involved as an entrepreneur in the security, energy, media, and real estate sectors in Central Eastern Europe, with a focus on startup business development and high-tech inventions.

Andras has also lived in several African countries, speaking a number of languages. His extensive travels throughout Europe, Russia, the Americas, China, and Southeast Asia enable him to tap into resources and achieve goals on a global level.

For the last 20 years he has been actively engaged in fostering communication between European organizations and Christian communities on the one hand and the modern State of Israel on the other. In 2009 Andras was introduced to the Israel Allies Foundation and the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus in Jerusalem by Pastor Sándor Németh of Faith Church, Hungary. Since then, his commitment to the cause of IAF and participation in activities from the European Parliament, through the Federal Assembly of Russia, to the Israeli Knesset, has developed into a more comprehensive and focused framework.

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