10 Facts About Nachman Shai

Nachman Shai is an Israeli journalist and politician who served as Israel's Minister of Diaspora Affairs.

Nachman Shai previously served as a member of the Knesset and its Deputy Speaker, as well as the IDF spokesman.

Nachman Shai studied communications at the World Press Institute in Minnesota, and worked as a research fellow in the Shorenstein Center in the JFK School of Government at Harvard University.

Nachman Shai is remembered for instructing concerned citizens to "drink water".

Nachman Shai was chairman of the board of directors of the Israel Television News Company, chairman of the Israel Broadcasting Authority and Director General of the Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport.

Nachman Shai later served as Senior Vice-President of United Jewish Communities and Director-General of UJC Israel.

Nachman Shai was placed eighteenth on the party list and entered the Knesset as the party won 28 seats.

Nachman Shai left to join the Labor Party prior to the January 2013 elections.

In 2013 Nachman Shai published a book in Hebrew called Milhamedia dealing largely with the treatment by the media of the Second Intifada.

Nachman Shai failed to enter the Knesset as the party won seven seats.