Article: The IDF's 'Arabic Voice' fights alone on the media battlefield. Army spokesman Avichay Adraee: 'Not everybody is al- Jazeera'

REBECCA ANNA STOIL
Jerusalem Post
03-04-2008
Headline: The IDF's 'Arabic Voice' fights alone on the media battlefield. Army spokesman Avichay Adraee: 'Not everybody is al- Jazeera'
Byline: REBECCA ANNA STOIL
Edition; Daily
Section: News
Page: 01

Tuesday, March 4, 2008 -- For almost 200 million Arabic speakers from Indiana to Indonesia, the IDF has one face and name - 25-year-old Avichay Adraee. The lone member of the IDF's Spokesman's Office Arabic Language desk has had his hands full over the past week, presenting the army's perspective on Kassam rockets and IDF operations in Gaza to the variegated world of Arabic-language media.

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