Anat Saragusti

Anat Saragusti (Hebrew: ענת סרגוסטי), born in Jerusalem, Israel on 1953 is an Israeli journalist, a publicist and a jurist.

Anat's professional career includes Former CEO of Agenda (Israeli Center for Strategic Communications), former news editor, reporter and photographer.

At the age of 21 she met Avraham Bardugo, then a law student and later a well known lawyer, an activist and the one who granted the Israeli Black Panthers their name.

The First Lebanese War of 1982 was the background for Saragusti's most significant journalism achievement of the period: The first Israeli interview with Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), in besieged Beirut.

That year she was also invited to participate in forums and panels exploring the global media's role in times of terror events, and was vastly accepted as a popular speaker, with her Middle East experience.

In order to direct the media and social change activities of this non-profit organization she retired from her job at the Channel 2 News Company.

As of the 1980s Anat Saragusti has been engaged in numerous social ventures, and her main areas of interest focused on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict as well as women promotion and minority integration within the Israeli society.

[7] In 2005 Saragusti initiated and directed the first vocational training courses qualifying black Ethiopian youth for press jobs.

Simultaneously, Saragusti acted for integrating Palestinian citizens of Israel within leading roles of the Israeli media and directed numerous courses qualifying Arabic youth for press jobs.

This chamber dedicates numerous efforts in order to change the way the journalistic coverage is conducted and promotes the representation and scope of women in the media.

She authors many an article expressing her opinions and meets men and women in senior positions in order to generate a significant change.