Charley Levine
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Charley J. Levine serves as Managing Director of International Operations (London) of 5W PR Agency, and also heads 5W Israel (Tel Aviv). Until June 2006, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Ruder Finn Israel, another large PR public relations agency in Israel.
Prior to October 1997, Levine served as President and CEO of Charles Levine Communications, which he founded in 1983. CLC, one of Israel’s largest media consultancies with a client base including well-known Israeli and international corporations and organizations, became part of Ruder Finn Israel at that time.
Levine was born in 1952 and raised in San Antonio, Texas. He earned his BA with Honors in Philosophy and Near Eastern Studies at New York University and MA with Honors in Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin.
Levine worked subsequently as Public Relations Executive of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, PR Director of Hadassah, the largest Diaspora Jewish organization and Director of Information for North America of the World Zionist Organization, in Jerusalem, after moving to Israel in 1978.
Levine was invited for a month to the University of Texas in 1996, as a visiting William Randolph Hearst Fellow, lecturing on Public Relations. He serves as a Captain (res.) in the Israel Defense Forces Spokespersons’s Office and is a long-time friend and media adviser to several national leaders including Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Silvan Shalom, Uzi Landau, Isaac Herzog, Avraham Ravitz, Yuri Shtern, Benny Kasriel.
He has worked with dozens of international leaders including US Vice President Al Gore, Malcolm Hoenlein, Edgar Bronfman, Cyril Stein, Rupert Murdoch, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Included in his clientele are General Electric, Bank of America, Jerusalem Global Ventures, Israel Aircraft Industries, ECI Telecom, Hebrew University, Nefesh B’Nefesh.
Levine has been a monthly columnist for Hadassah Magazine since 2002. He has won several awards, the most recent of which were first place for "Best International Campaign" and "Best NGO Special Event" in 2005 from the Israel Public Relations Society.
Levine is a member of the prestigious on-line public relations forum, IsraelPr, which provides pro-bono media consultancy to the Prime Minister's Office, the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the Israel Defense Forces.
His wife Shelly owns and operates a successful real estate practice, Tivuch Shelly.
The Levines live in a suburb of Jerusalem and have three children.
