Alexander Averbukh | |
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Александр Авербух | |
| Born | Alexander Vladimirovich Averbukh 14 December 1957 |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, anchorman, teacher, engineer, author, singer |
Alexander Vladimirovich Averbukh (born December 14, 1957, in Moscow) journalist, television and radio anchorman, chemistry and computer science teacher, engineer of manufacturing automation, author and performer of songs.
After graduating from the Moscow technical university he worked in his field, until eventually abandoning the career in engineering and becoming a middle school chemistry teacher. Obtained his master's degree. Taught chemistry and computer science, became a teacher and teaching instructor. In parallel, he worked as a freelance author for the “Youth” radio station, was published in “Moskovskiy Komsomolets”, “Teacher’s newspaper” and other publications. From the time he was a student he wrote and performed songs. In the end of the 1980s he became interested in Zionist teachings, from 1990 – a member of the All-union Zionist organization presidium. He was the founder and the first director of the Jewish children's organization “Banim Banot” (still operating). After moving to Israel he changed his profession again and became a journalist. Worked as an author and an editor in the humorous newspaper “Beseder?”, and later as the economic editor of the newspaper «Vesti». The newspaper created an addition called “Treasurer” (still exiting) of which Alexander was the chief editor. In addition, for many years he authored a weekly column called “Buhes’ reaction”. In 1997 he began working part-time on the «Arutz sheva» (“Seventh channel) radio station, where he founded and hosted a weekly program called “The Republic” for 5 years. In April 2002 he began working at the television channel «Israel Plus (Channel 9), as one of the founders of the channel. After the channel went on air at November 2002, he was the editor of the programs “Servants of the people” and “Of legal age”, editor and host of “Three opinions” and “Wunderkind show”,[1] author, editor and host of “Money time”,[2] and the host of the documentary series “Tmol’-shilshom”.[3] He participated in the programs “Seven forty”, “Contact” and others.