JofGold's Summer Fellowship

AFTER MEETING Ambassador Dennis Ross last week at the Israeli Embassy in Washington DC, along with other Israeli officials, we all arived at Beit Gesher to stay for 2 months. Now that we're settled in, its time to get to work! Anyone who's interested in more personalized details of my experiences, please feel free to e-mail me at this e-mail address vitali002@gmail.com
I had the chance to visit the BBC's Jerusalem Bureau near the central bus station in Jerusalem, where I met the Middle East Bureau Chief Simon Wilson. Simon's duties are quite challenging because he has also the responsibility of coordinating the reporters in Iraq and elsewhere in the middle east unlike other internation news agencies like CNN.

Speaking of CNN, I also had the chance to visit with Tom Fenton, the CNN Bureau Chief in Jerusalem since 2003, who's leaving at the end of the summer for his native London. Tom spoke about the security training he madates for all the CNN correspondents and the various task the get assigned to do. He also talked about the recent kidnepping of a CNN journalist and also about coming close to being kicked out of the country for airing an interview he should have not made. Tom eplained about the major CNN bureaus in the Middle East including Beirut, Cairo, Amman, Dubai and now Baghdad. Visiting both the BBC and CNN was trully an amazing experience.