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Alan D. Abbey, former Editor-in-Chief of two of Israel's leading news websites, is a journalist and entrepreneur. He is President and CEO of Abbey Content Enterprises, a Jerusalem-based producer of content for news media, businesses and organizations. Abbey Content Enterprises specializes in delivering outsourced content and website solutions for enterprises, news organizations and businesses needing real-time content.

Recent projects of Abbey Content Enterprises include development of a Jerusalem travel and tourism Web site and an online forum for a major high-tech company.

Previously, Abbey founded and edited Ynetnews.com, the English-language website of Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel's leading newspaper. Ynetnews.com provides the English-speaking world with the best-written and most entertaining news and features out of Israel. Abbey continues with Ynetnews as a featured editorial and social affairs columnist.

Abbey founded Ynetnews in 2004 after three years at the Jerusalem Post, where he was Editor-in-Chief of Jpost.com.

Abbey came to Israel in 1999, and was a senior editor at the pioneering website Virtual Jerusalem. He also ran the Israel operations of Internet.com. In 2003 he authored "Journey of Hope: The Story of Ilan Ramon, Israel's First Astronaut.

Prior to his move to Israel, Abbey spent more than 20 years as a journalist in the U.S., where he was an award-winning editor and reporter at newspapers and news bureaus in Washington, D.C., New York, New Jersey, Oregon and Vermont.

He has lectured on the news media, Israel, and the Internet before university, community and school groups in the U.S., Israel and Europe. His weekly column on Ynetnews.com has been cited by world media such as The Guardian. His work has been published by The Baltimore Sun, Jewish.com, Houston Chronicle and other newspapers, magazines and websites.

Abbey has a Master’s degree in Journalism from the University of Oregon, and received his Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University at Albany. He has won numerous writing and editing awards.

He is a native of Brooklyn, New York, and lives in Jerusalem with his wife and three children.

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