Kesher Talk

New PR initiative from the IDF. Captain Sharon Feingold is a spokeswoman for the Israeli Defense Forces, which has realized it has to present its case to the international community as well as fight a war. 31-year-old Sharon is clearly up to the job.

“Reporters are getting more answers now from the army,” she says. “I educate my soldiers to get back to reporters quickly. I think it’s quite remarkable … that these top journalists who have covered every war possible call my office and the person on the phone is a 19-year-old woman in charge of giving the response.”

. . . These days, when Feingold meets people she used to know in Europe and they can’t believe “I’m serving in the Israeli occupation army, I tell them, ‘Then you didn’t know me very well.’ I’m doing what I can for my country and my people,” she says, “and if you have a problem with that, then tough.”

You go, girl.

posted by Judith @ 2/17/2003 10:16:17 PM