Israel Peleg

On January 1, 2012 Peleg was appointed CEO of the Company for Location and Restitution of Holocaust Victims' Assets Ltd.

In 2009 Peleg established Ispel Ltd., a private consulting firm for marketing and business development specializing in environment management.

Peleg was the Chairman of the Public Committee on Tourism in Israel (2007–2008). This committee was appointed by Minister of Tourism Isaac Herzog and was composed of representatives of all the tourist industry. In its recommendations the committee called for the implementation of a new hotel rating system. In 2010 Peleg was appointed Honorary Consul of Cape Verde in Israel.

From 2003 until 2009 Peleg was Acting Chairman and President of H&O Fashion chain, which operates 33 stores with total sale of NIS 470m (US$117million). In 2007, the chain purchased TagWoman with 25 stores.

As Vice President of Israel's National Lottery (2000–2003) Peleg was in charge of Marketing, Advertising, Sales, Customer Service, Membership Club etc. with an advertising budget of NIS100m (US$25 million) and turnover of NIS3.2 billion (US$800million). He was awarded a prize by the Marketing and Advertising Association for a new game he introduced, "The Winning Horse."

He sat on the board of El-Al (1993-1999) the Blue Square retail supermarket chain (1996–2001) and Polar Investment Ltd. (1996–2001). He is a member of the board of the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo; America-Israel Chamber of Commerce, America-Israel Friendship League (AIFL); and Israel-Poland Chamber of Commerce. In 1999, at the request of the Mayor of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Peleg prepared a conceptual program for the reconstruction and rejuvenating of Jaffa . He named it "Ha'Mishlama" - The Governance of Jaffa (Yafo). Peleg was the founder and first Director General of the Governance of Jaffa. At that time he was also a member of the board of the Eretz Israel Museum. Later he served as Chairman of Ganei Yehoshua (Tel Aviv-Yafo) – Hayarkon Park, Begin (South) Park and the Zoological Park. He is a member of board of trustees of the Cameri Theater.

During his tenure as Director General of the Ministry of the Environment (1992–1996) he initiated the closure of 400 dumps and establishment of state-of- the-art landfills. The new word in Hebrew –"Mitmana"- which he coined represents a new concept of solid waste management in Israel. Peleg was the coordinator of President Shimon Peres' think tank on Sustainability. He was a member of the board of directors of Gaon-Agro-Industries.

As the Director of the Government Press Office (1984–1988) he introduced the Teletext system in Israel. He was a member of Prime Minister Shimon Peres' team of advisors, Chairman of the International Jewish Press Conference, member of the boards of directors of the Broadcasting Authority, the Government coin and medals company, and ISSTA – the student's travel agency.

Israel Peleg was born in Ramat HaSharon. He earned his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in June 1982. He is married to Dr. Anat Peleg a former journalist broadcast on court and justice for 'Kol-Israel' –The Israel National Radio. Media Scholar and Director for the study of Media and Law at Bar Ilan University.

Peleg was Chief Assistant to the Director of the Government Central Office of Information (1973–1976) and was the coordinator of the Celebration for the 25th year of Independence of the State of Israel and in charge of domestic tours of Prime-Minister Yitzhak Rabin. When the Labor Party lost the election in 1977 Israel Peleg was appointed as the Secretary and Spokesman of the Labor Alignment Faction in the Knesset (The Parliament). He recruited young students to establish a professional system of Parliamentary Assistants, who would become a few years later leading figures in the Israeli business arena and political theater. When the first results of the 1981 elections were collected Peleg, as the spokesman, was too fast to announce Shimon Peres as "…The next Prime Minister of Israel", however according to the final results in the ballots it was Menachem Begin who formed the government.

Israel Peleg (Hebrew: ישראל פלג; born June 5, 1949) is an Israeli politician, diplomat and businessperson.