world israel beytenu
ABOUT US
World Yisrael Beytenu was established to promote Zionist values and maintain a strong ideological partnerships between Israel, the Jewish Diaspora and our friends around the world.
Alex Selsky, was born in Ufa in Soviet Union (Today Russia), made Aliyah to Israel alone at age of 16 in 1993 by NAALE (Elite Academy) program.
In the past served as an advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, focusing on relations with Russian-speaking Israelis and the Russian-speaking Jewish Diaspora, as well as the Israeli and foreign Russian-language press. In parallel, he was spokesman of the National Economic Council in Prime Minister’s Office.
Before that he served as a spokesman for the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organization to Russian-language press and an emissary by the Jewish Agency to work with Jewish youth in New York City.
Mr Selsky has BA in Business Administration and finished Executive Master in Public Policy with distinction from Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
On behalf of the World Israel Beytenu movement Mr Selsky is a member of the executive of the World Zionist Organization and a member of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel.
He as well servers as a CEO of the World Forum of Russian-speaking Jewry, and a lecturer at the School of Politics and Journalism at Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem.
Mr. Alex Selsky – CEO
Born in Rome, Italy, and married with three children
Ms. Arbib obtained her degree in Business Administration, specializing in finance, from John Cabot University.
Her activity in the Jewish world started in 1985, at age 16, when she began her involvement in the local campaign of Keren Hayesod. in 1999, following her father’s footsteps, she became president of the Keren Hayesod Rome campaign. in March 2009 she was appointed Chair of the World Board of Trustees of Keren Hayesod, United Israel Appeal, the highest ranking lay leadership appointment in Keren Hayesod, and one of the most prestigious lay leadership role in the Jewish world.
Yohanna is motivated by her belief in the centrality of Israel, the unity of the Jewish People and the guarantee of a Jewish/Zionist future for the generations that will follow. Torah and Israel are her guiding lights..
Ms. Yohanna Arbib Perugia - Chairman
Ms. Marina Koritny – Deputy CEO
Marina was born in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan. She has an MA in Organizational Behavior from Polytechnic University of New York. Marina began her political/social activism after immigrating to Israel in 1995.
In 2003, Marina joined the Be'er Sheva city council as the #3 candidate from the Yisrael Beytenu party list. She worked to increase tourism in Be'er Sheva under former mayor Yaakov Turner. She transferred to the central division of the Department of Tourism in 2007. Marina served as political adviser to Minister of Tourism Yitzhak Aharonovich (2007-2008), mass media adviser to Yisrael Beytenu head Avigdor Liberman (2008-2014) and has served as director of the Israel advocacy department at party headquarters since then.
