Adir Zik was an Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

i television producer and journalist.

Biography

Adir Zik was born in Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...

 to a secular Jewish family. As a teenager, he was a member of the left-wing youth movement HaShomer Hatzair

Hashomer Hatzair

Hashomer Hatzair is a Socialist–Zionist youth movement founded in 1913 in Galicia, Austria-Hungary, and was also the name of the group's political party in the Yishuv in the pre-1948 British Mandate of Palestine...

, but was drawn to religion and became an observant Jew.

In 1964, after serving in the Israel Defense Force, he studied television and radio broadcasting at the University of California

University of California

The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...

. There he served as an emissary for the religious youth movement Bnei Akiva

Bnei Akiva

Bnei Akiva is the largest religious Zionist youth movement in the world, with over 125,000 members in 37 countries. It was established in Mandate Palestine in 1929.-History:...

. Zik was married and the father of six children. He died in 2005 at the age of 66 after a six-year battle with cancer. He was buried on the Mount of Olives

Mount of Olives

The Mount of Olives is a mountain ridge in East Jerusalem with three peaks running from north to south. The highest, at-Tur, rises to 818 meters . It is named for the olive groves that once covered its slopes...

.

Media career

Upon returning to Israel, he helped to found Israel Television

Channel 1 (Israel)

Channel 1 is one of the oldest television channels in Israel and one of five terrestrial channels in the country...

 (now Channel One). For 15 years, he was the host of a popular Friday morning radio program on Arutz 7 called Zikukim shel Adir, (lit. Adir's Fireworks, a pun on his name) commenting on news, politics and Jewish issues. He established a non-profit organization

Non-profit organization

Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...

 called 'Virashtem Otah' which extended aid to needy settlers in Judea and Samaria

Judea and Samaria

Judea and Samaria Area is the official Israeli term roughly corresponding to the territory usually known outside Israel as the West Bank and to the Israeli settlements there that are not governed as part of Jerusalem.-Terminology:...

.Zik claimed that the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

Yitzhak Rabin

' was an Israeli politician, statesman and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–77 and 1992 until his assassination in 1995....

 was a conspiracy

Yitzhak Rabin assassination conspiracy theories

Yitzhak Rabin assassination conspiracy theories arose almost immediately following the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Prime Minister, on November 4, 1995. The gunman Yigal Amir, a Jewish Israeli student, was apprehended within seconds by other people in the crowd. Rabin died later on...

 and broke the story that Avishai Raviv

Avishai Raviv

Avishai Raviv was an agent of Israel's Shin Bet or Shabak, Israel's domestic intelligence service whose mission was to monitor the activities of right-wing extremists. His code name was 'Champagne'....

 was a member of the Israeli Shin Bet. He based his theory on a list of 58 unanswered questions about the assassination

Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin took place on November 4, 1995 at 21:30, at the end of a rally in support of the Oslo Accords at the Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv...

.

Commemoration

In 2009, the Jerusalem Municipality decided to name a street in the Ramat Eshkol

Ramat Eshkol

Ramat Eshkol is a neighborhood in north-eastern Jerusalem. It was built on land captured from Jordan in the Six-Day War and was the first neighborhood built in East Jerusalem after the Six-Day War in 1967...

 neighborhood after him.A park in Givat HaMivtar

Givat HaMivtar

Givat HaMivtar is a Jewish neighborhood in northern Jerusalem established in 1970 between Ramat Eshkol and French Hill. It is located on a hill where an important battle took place in the Six Day War. Archaeological excavations have revealed important ancient Jewish tombs in the region...

is named for him.