Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appointed Caroline Glick, 46, as his new public relations advisor. Glick, a journalist and publicist, is a senior editor at the Jerusalem Post and the founder of the right-wing satire website Latma. She also worked as an assistant to Netanyahu’s political advisor during his first term in office.
On January 30, Glick posted the final episode of her podcast, “In Focus:”
Glick was born in Houston, and her family relocated to Chicago when she was an infant, where she grew up in the Jewish neighborhood of Hyde Park. She graduated from Columbia College at Columbia University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science.
During her teenage years, she traveled with her parents and siblings, and it was on one of these trips that she first visited Israel, coinciding with the start of the First Lebanon War. Later that same year, in 1991, Glick made Aliyah and enlisted in the IDF.
In its Israeli Independence Day supplement in 2003, the newspaper Maariv named Glick the most prominent woman in Israel.
In 2003, during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Glick was embedded with the US Army’s 3rd Infantry Division and filed frontline reports for both The Jerusalem Post and the Chicago Sun-Times. She also reported daily from the front lines for Israel’s Channel 1 news. Glick was on the ground when US forces captured the Baghdad International Airport. For her battlefield reporting, she was honored with the Distinguished Civilian Service Award from the US Secretary of the Army.
In 2011, Glick harshly criticized Prime Minister Netanyahu in the aftermath of the Gilad Shalit prisoners’ exchange deal. The piece, which appeared on the News12 website, accused Netanyahu of being a weak leader who gave in to the manipulations of Israel’s extremist and defeatist media. Glick went on to describe Netanyahu as, at best, someone who lacked resolve, and at worst, as an immoral, strategically irresponsible, foolish, and opportunistic politician.
In January 2019, Glick joined Naftali Bennett’s New Right party. She ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Knesset in the April 2019 elections, securing the sixth spot on the party’s electoral list. None of them made it past the threshold vote in that round.
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