Jonathan Conricus
Israeli military personnel
Jonathan Conricus (Hebrew: יהונתן קונריקוס; born August 14, 1979) is a Swedish-Israeli spokesperson and media commentator. He was the international spokesperson of the Israel Defense Forces from 2017 to 2021 and again in 2023. Conricus is a senior fellow at the think tank Foundation for Defense of Democracies, based in Washington, DC, in the United States. He was an officer in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), in which he served for 24 years before returning to duty as a reservist in 2023.
Early and personal life
Conricus is the son of an Israeli mother and a Swedish father. He was born in Jerusalem, Israel, and raised in Malmö, Sweden—in Hyllie and Djupadal. His grandfather, Daniel Bornstein, grew up in Oświęcim in Poland, where Nazi Germany operated the Auschwitz concentration camp, and was a Holocaust survivor along with his sister. The rest of Bornstein's family was murdered.
When he was 13 years of age, Conricus and his family moved back to Israel. He graduated with a BA in Middle Eastern and Military Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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