Walter Zanger is an Israeli
lecturer, author, columnist, film-writer, television personality and
one of Israel's
best-known guides. He is the author and publisher of From Jerusalem,
a monthly newsletter with an international circulation, a contributor to
newspapers, encyclopedias and magazines, a member of the Editorial Board of the
Jewish Bible Society, author of a school book on Jerusalem, and of another small
book on the Land of Israel for distribution to the Jews of the former Soviet
Union.
More recently, he was
featured on the Mysteries of the Bible series on the A&E Network. He
served as editorial adviser for the series and appeared regularly on
the program.
Mr. Zanger has lectured extensively at synagogues, churches, museums, universities and community centers across the United States and Canada and has appeared on television and radio news and talk shows. He became widely-known in the United States as the archaeological host of the long-running television magazine, "Hello Jerusalem" and has also written and appeared in a number of documentary films for the Israel Film Service and for the History Channel. One of them, Treasures from the Holy Land, was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection and is still shown periodically on PBS.
Born in New York, Mr. Zanger is a cum laude graduate of Amherst College, and then of the Hebrew Union College, where he received a Masters degree and was ordained a rabbi. After ordination he joined the United States Air Force as a chaplain. Stationed in the Philippines, he served Jewish personnel throughout Southeast Asia.
He
and his
family
emigrated to Israel in 1966. He served for six years as assistant to
the publisher and as a contributor to the
Encyclopaedia Judaica.
After working for the Jerusalem Post, where he has also written book
reviews and
a travel column, he entered the tourism industry. He has received
the Ministry of Tourism's Distinguished Tourism Employee award. Mr.
Zanger served as a sergeant in an anti-aircraft battalion in the
Israel Defense
Forces for a dozen years. Since his discharge from the army he has
been an active volunteer in the Tourism Unit of the Israel Police.
He lives in the
Jerusalem suburb of Ein Karem.
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