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CONDIOTTI StandWithUs SD's New Director
Yosef Condiotti, director StandWithUs San Diego and Dana Elazar, SWU Southwest Campus Liaison at the organization’s annual “Israel in Focus” International Conference held in January in Los Angeles.
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ecently we sat down with the new Director of StandWithUs San Diego, Yosef Condiotti. Here are seven questions with SWU SD’s Director.
1. Where are you from in Israel, what is your position with SWU and when did you start? My parents made Aliyah from San Diego to Jerusalem in 1985 where I was born and raised. My maternal aunts, Ellen Fox and Beth Palmer live in San Diego County. Ellen is the school director at Temple Solel, while Beth is a nurse practitioner at the Veterans Administration Hospital. I moved here to assume the position of 22
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director, StandWithUs San Diego in August 2019. 2. What did you do in IDF and where were stationed? I served in the IDF as a tank commander from 2008 through 2010 and was called back as a reservist during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza in 2014. 3. Where and what did you study in university? After service, I studied sociology, anthropology and political science at Hebrew university. From 2013-15, I was an assistant to MK Yisrael Katz, Israel’s Minister of Transportation and Development and later
