From 1996 up until the end of 2007, Col. Uri Dromi was the Director of International Outreach and the Editor-in-Chief of Publications at the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI). He is currently the Director General of Mishkenot Sha'ananim, a conference center in Jerusalem.
Col. Dromi served in the Israeli Air Force from 1964-1989 as a navigator. He participated in the Six Day War, War of Attrition, the Yom Kippur War, and the Lebanon War. He also flew many operational missions, including Operation Moses, which brought Ethiopian Jews to Israel. He was the Chief Education Officer of the Israeli Air Force and the Editor-in-Chief of the IAF Magazine and the IDF Publishing House. He retired from active duty in 1989 with the rank of colonel and continues flying in the reserves, in the same squadron which he joined back in 1966, until he resigned in 2003.
Between 1989 and 1992, he served as the North American Director of Information for the World Zionist Organization. Based in Los Angeles, he initiated the Do the Write Thing project for Jewish student journalists.
Before coming to the IDI, Col. Dromi was the Director of the Government Press Office, serving as the Chief Spokesman for the Rabin and Peres governments from 1992 to 1996.
Col. Dromi graduated Ben-Gurion University with a B.A. in history and started doctoral studies at the Hebrew University, where he currently teaches communications. He has published three books, Big Wars – Small Stories, Combat Flight, and Commitment, as well as numerous articles in Israeli and international newspapers, including a regular column in the Miami Herald. Click here to read some of his Op-Eds.
Col. Dromi was born in 1946 in Pardes Hanna and currently resides in Jerusalem with his wife Dalia. They have three children.