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Shek served as a photographer in [[IDF]] [[Aman|military intelligence]].<ref name="HaaretzProfile">Aviva Lori, [http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/former-israeli-ambassador-speaks-his-mind-about-his-boss-avigdor-lieberman-1.401828 Former Israeli ambassador speaks his mind about his boss, Avigdor Lieberman], ''Haaretz'', 16 December 2011.</ref>
 
Shek served as a photographer in [[IDF]] [[Aman|military intelligence]].<ref name="HaaretzProfile">Aviva Lori, [http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/former-israeli-ambassador-speaks-his-mind-about-his-boss-avigdor-lieberman-1.401828 Former Israeli ambassador speaks his mind about his boss, Avigdor Lieberman], ''Haaretz'', 16 December 2011.</ref>
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==Diplomatic career==
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After studing general history and French literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, worked at the Israeli embassy in Brussels for a year. He was subsequently accepted into the Foreign Ministry cadet's course in 1984.<ref name="HaaretzProfile">Aviva Lori, [http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/former-israeli-ambassador-speaks-his-mind-about-his-boss-avigdor-lieberman-1.401828 Former Israeli ambassador speaks his mind about his boss, Avigdor Lieberman], ''Haaretz'', 16 December 2011.</ref>
  
 
==On Hasbara==
 
==On Hasbara==

Revision as of 12:37, 9 August 2012

Daniel Shek is a former Israeli ambassador to Paris.[1]

Background

Shek's parents were orginally from Prague, where they met in the Theresienstadt ghetto during the Nazi occupation. His father, Zeev Shek, was a personal secretary of Israeli foreign minister Moshe Sharett, and one of Israel's first diplomats.[1]

Military service

Shek served as a photographer in IDF military intelligence.[1]

Diplomatic career

After studing general history and French literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, worked at the Israeli embassy in Brussels for a year. He was subsequently accepted into the Foreign Ministry cadet's course in 1984.[1]

On Hasbara

Shek told Haaretz in December 2011 that expectations of what 'hasbara' or public relations can achieve are inflated:

"To a great extent that's true. In every conflict, there has always been a military and a diplomatic dimension. In both of these dimensions, it is clear who is victorious: the one who is stronger. In the third dimension, the battle for public opinion, it's the opposite: The strong one always loses, and the Palestinians use the third dimension, and rightly so. There's no hasbara in the world that can explain away an Israeli tank confronting a fighter with a Kalashnikov rifle who is standing in a street with an open sewer, in a refugee camp in Jabalya."[1]

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