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28/04/2009 - Following the AGM yesterday, the new FPA chairman and Board are in office. See "On the Agenda"
10/04/2009 - Armored car for sale, see "Sales & Rentals" on the Bulletin Board.
26/01/2009 - Relaxation ideas. See: "Special offers"
25/01/2009 - Israel's Supreme Court endorses FPA position on access to Gaza Strip. See "On the Agenda"
25/01/2009 - The FPA welcomes the Supreme Court decision to allow access for foreign media to the Gaza Strip. See "Statements"
13/01/2009 - The FPA protests the closed military zone, the lack of access to Gaza and the confiscation of journalists equipment. See "Statements"
09/01/2009 - Need extra staff ? Field producers, cameramen, translators etc. See " Services and Job Offers" , apartment for rent see " Sales & Rentals" on the Bulletin Board.
07/01/2009 - The FPA objects in the strongest terms to Israeli attempts to delay entry of foreign media into Gaza. See "Statements"
06/01/2009 - The FPA protests the continued ban on access to Gaza. See: "Statements"
02/01/2009 - Supreme Court Decision. See "Statements"
29/12/2008 - An open letter from the FPA re Gaza access restriction. See "On the Agenda"
29/12/2008 - The FPA protests "closed military zone" along the Gaza periphery. See "Statements"
28/12/2008 - The FPA petitons High Court for interim injunction to allow foreign media into the Gaza Strip. See " Statement"
28/12/2008 - The FPA strongly objects to Palestinian security roughing up legitimate journalists in Hebron. See " Statements"
22/12/2008 - FPA members receive prestigious prizes yet again for 2008. See: Awards & Citations for the full list !
14/12/2008 - The FPA protests the random curtailment of media access to the Gaza strip. See "Statements"
04/12/2008 - The FPA welcomes the reopening of the Erez Crossing into Gaza, and hopes that the month long closure to journalists will not recur.
03/12/2008 - The FPA strongly protests the denial of access to the Presidential compound in Ramalla imposed upon Al Jazeera. See " Statements"
24/11/2008 - The FPA appeals to the High Court to allow media access to Gaza. See "On the Agenda"
20/11/2008 - More major news executives call on Prime Minister Olmert to allow foreign media access to Gaza. See " On the Agenda"

 

 

 Welcome to the FPA

Established in June 1957 by thirty one enterprising journalists, the Foreign Press Association in Israel -- known as the FPA -- essentially  attempts to fulfill the same task today as it did at its inception some 50 years ago -- working to assist our members in covering the Middle East conflict by easing the bureaucratic hassles that inevitably come up. 

 

 In 1957, the first FPA members represented the following media: The Times (Roy Elston), The Financial Times (Lore Daniel-Gross), New York Times (Seth King and Moshe Brilliant), Herald Tribune and Time (Monica Elston, stringer to be followed the next year by Marlin Levin, see "Former Chairmen"), Le Monde (Ben Phillips and Andre Scemama), CBS (Michael Elkins), the BBC (Peter John Flynn), Reuters (Amos Gordon and Arye Wallenstein - see "Former Chairmen"), The Associated Press (Eric Gottgetreau), Agence France Presse (Nathan Gurdus, Benn Felier and Fabien Lacombe), Deutsche Presse Agentur (Rudolf Kuestermeier), International News Service, New York (Jack Lavie), Christian Science Monitor and The Observer (Francis Ofner - see "Former Chairmen"),  Danish Radio (Herbert Pundik), National Broadcasting Co (Alvin Rosenfeld), Jewish Telegraphic Agency (Eliahu Salpeter and Itzak Shargil), France Soir (Erel Ginay), The Associated Newspapers of Ceylon (Felix Grab) and others.

To date the FPA numbers some 460 members representing TV, radio, stills photographers and print from thirty two countries reaching across from Australia to Qatar, Africa to Europe, China to the USA. 

The current FPA Chairman is James Stephenson of BBC News

Board members 2009 - 2010 :  Conny Mus of RTL Netherlands, Deputy Chairman, Peter Armstrong of CBC TV News, Simon McGregor-Wood of ABC News,   Hanne Foighel of Politiken,  Ahmad Budeiri of BBC Arabic, David Silverman of Getty Images and Samer Shalabi of CBC TV News. 

Executive Secretary: Glenys Sugarman

 

The Forign Press Association  Beit Sokolov, 2nd Floor, 4 Kaplan St., Tel Aviv 64734 Tel. (972-3) 691-6143 Email: fpa@netvision.net.il

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