Sima Vaknin-Gil

==Career==
*Chief Censor, The State of Israel, Aug 2005 – Aug 2015. Sima Vakin-Gil LinkedIn Bio LinkedIn Retrieved from Archive.today of 25 June 2020 on 25 June 2020.
*Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy, Director General. December 2015 - June 2019
**She states that this role involved “building the Ministry’s operational task force” which consisted of “combating Delegitimization of Israel and the BDS campaign. developing operational perceptions along with prevention and thwarting tools, while developing a positive campaign, creating action networks, initiating legislation, managing and raising budgets and donations and more.” Above this, the Ministry “aimed to coordinate and create a synergy among the pro-Israel factors … and operated with the civil society and with establishments in Israel and abroad.” Sima Vaknin-Gil, LinkedIn, archived on 15 December 2020 at https://archive.vn/Nzqz9 Accessed on 15 December 2020 
*SVG Strategic Consulting Company (Impact solutions), Sep 2019 –
**On Oct 2015 the Israeli government enacted upon the need to take action against the de-legitimazation and boycott campaign , otherwise known as BDS, against the state of Israel and called upon the newly formed Ministry of strategic affairs and public diplomacy to lead the initiative. "I had the honor to form the Task force and together with wonderful people in the Ministry to direct the struggle against this false and vicious campaign", she wrote of the position. Sima Vaknin-Gil, LinkedIn, archived on 3 February 2022 at https://archive.ph/wip/OeFDw Accessed on 3 February 2022 
*Strategic Impact Initiative, Sept 2020 - present
** Strategic Impact Ltd was founded by Sima Vaknin Gill & Revital Yakin Krakovsky, as a global strategy and influence company.
SVG & RYK possess vast experience in strategy, intelligence and influence communications in both the public and private sectors. Both SVG & RYK had worked with government entities (local and international), global organizations, the corporate sector and non-profits.
The company provides various services, among them developing strategy, tactics and tools needed to address the issue at hand, building and leading professional teams, from full task force to designated teams to address client needs. In this capacity SVG&RYK works with PR, advertising and creative agencies, as well as global polling and research firms. The company founders have enormous practical experience in crisis management from acute operational needs to brand and coalition building. RYK brings expertise in the full cycle of communications: Policy Change; Content Creation; Advertising Campaigns; Public Relation; Crisis Management; Media Partnership; Event & Conferences Planning. Over the years, we were the mastermind behind some of the leading campaigns and PR initiatives in both the Israeli, Jewish & international arena. SVG brings expertise in the full cycle of intelligence work, from monitoring and collection, through analysis process to execution and debrief. The company specialize in formulating and running ‘data and deep research-based’ action plans and large-scale influence campaigns. We work with cutting-edge intelligence companies as well as big data and cyber influence companies. SVG&RYK are universally connected in the Jewish world, from global and local organizations to community leadership and the philanthropic world – donors, family funds and foundation. 
===Education===
*Haifa University
Master's degree, Field Of Study National Security Policy Studies 
2004 – 2005 
*National Defense College
graduate with greatest honors 
2004 – 2005 
*Tel Aviv University
Bachelor's degree 
Middle Eastern Studies and Political Science 
1988 – 1990 
==Activities==
The Electronic Intifada reports:
:When Sima Vaknin-Gil took over as director-general of Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs at the start of 2016, a crucial fact went largely unnoticed. For years, she had been a high-ranking officer with an Israeli spy agency. This means that for the last two years a former intelligence officer has been running Israel’s global war against BDS, the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement. Asa Winstanley Meet the spies injecting Israeli propaganda into your news feed Electronic Intifada Retrieved from Archive.today of 25 June 2020 on 25 June 2020.
===2016 Israeli American Council Conference===
Vaknin-Gil spoke on a panel during the conference where she stated:
:"We have three different sub-campaigns: Data gathering, working on activist organisations, money trail. This is something that only a country, with its resources, can do the best. We have FDD. We have others working on this."" Max Blumenthal, @MaxBlumenthal, Here's Sima Vaknin-Gil, Director General of Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs, describing DC think tank @FDD as an Israeli government agent. From Al Jazeera's censored The Lobby - USA Twitter Published on 13 August 2020, Retrieved from Archive.today of 17 November 2020 on 17 November June 2020.
==Affiliations==
Vaknin-Gil is on the Board of Advisors at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy Advisors, ISGAP, archived on 15 December 2020 at https://archive.vn/wip/EP60X Accessed on 15 December 2020 
The institute received nearly half a million dollars direct from the Israeli Government in 2018. Although based in New York, USA where groups have to disclose foreign funding, the institute failed to do this claiming that their work was solely academic. Aiden Pink, Think tank failed to disclose six-figure grant from Israeli government, Forward, 31 August 2020, archived on 15 December 2020 at https://archive.vn/r1rOh accessed on 15 December 2020 
Vaknin-Gil has attended meetings held by ‘Concert Together for Israel’, a private company used by the state of Israel to front its campaign against the BDS movement. Noa Landau, Israel set up a front company to fight bds this is how it failed, Forward, 29 July 2020, archived on 15 December 2020 at https://archive.vn/QS4Oc Accessed on 15 December 2020 
In December 2018, she attended the 3rd Steering committee meeting of the company. The following is what was discussed 
*started working in Europe
* begin working in coordination with 10+ online pro-Israel groups
* building a high-tech platform, providing info to pro-Israel groups
* building a strategy
* building global tool for media campaigns
* setting up media centers in Europe
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