Daniel Seaman

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Daniel "Danny" Seaman (born 1961) is an Israeli media professional and former civil servant, mainly active in the fields of foreign service and public diplomacy.

Seaman worked in the Israeli civil service for 31 years (1983-2014).^[1] Between 2000-2010, Seaman served as the director of the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO), part of the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem responsible for the foreign media contingent in Israel. His last public position was Deputy Director General for Information at the Ministry of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs, where his outspoken views were often seen as controversial.^[2] In August 2013, Seaman was suspended from his government position as Director of Interactive Media because of comments he made in a private Facebook posting about Japanese commemorating the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Palestinians commemorating the Nakba.^[3]

Since 2014, Seaman has worked as Bureau Chief for Voice of Israel (2014-16; see below), English language editor at MiDA, an online conservative Israeli current affairs and opinion magazine (2016-18), Director of the Israel office of the Middle East Forum (2018-19), and Managing Director for Meshilut (2020).^[1][4]

Voice of Israel was a private Israeli English-language news and talk internet radio station that existed from 2014 to 2015.^[5][6] Seaman hosted In The Lions' Den with Daniel Seaman and Daniela Traub interviewing such guests as Dr. Einat Wilf, Zvi Yehezkeli, Ehud Gol, Col. Richard Kemp, Dr. Joy Browne, Bassem Eid and other political and media figures.^[7]