{"id":29482,"date":"2022-08-28T12:19:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T12:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/?post_type=news&#038;p=29482"},"modified":"2022-08-28T12:20:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T12:20:31","slug":"ono-professor-appointed-director-general-of-israels-national-insurance-institute","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/news\/ono-professor-appointed-director-general-of-israels-national-insurance-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Ono Professor Appointed Director General of Israel\u2019s National Insurance Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\">\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"655\" height=\"742\" class=\"wp-image-29484 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/YUVAL-ELBASHAN-1-e156074965422-Copy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/YUVAL-ELBASHAN-1-e156074965422-Copy-1.jpg 655w, https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/YUVAL-ELBASHAN-1-e156074965422-Copy-1-265x300.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\r\n<p><strong>Ono Professor Appointed Director General of Israel\u2019s National Insurance Institute<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Minister of Welfare Meir Cohen from the Yesh Atid party has appointed Ono Academic College Professor Yuval Elbashan to serve as Director General of Israel\u2019s National Insurance Institute.<br \/>As noted in an article about the appointment in the Jerusalem Post (https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/opinion\/article-705798 ), Elbashan is:<br \/>\u201cA staunch on- and off-air defender[] of social rights. . . .A lawyer by profession, a novelist and an author of children\u2019s books, Elbashan, who is a former dean of Ono Academic College\u2019s School of Law, sits on various think tanks and social rights committees, has won many prestigious awards and is also a broadcaster, having worked for several years for Army Radio and currently for KAN Reshet Bet, most notably cohosting a Friday morning show with right-wing religious journalist Emily Amrousi. Elbashan is left-wing and secular, and the two have many arguments on air, enabling listeners to make up their own minds after hearing both points of view.<br \/>Ono wishes Prof. Elbashan the best of luck in his new position.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ono Professor Appointed Director General of Israel\u2019s National Insurance Institute Minister of Welfare Meir Cohen from the Yesh Atid party has appointed Ono Academic College Professor Yuval Elbashan to serve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":29484,"menu_order":433,"template":"","class_list":["post-29482","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}