User:Idoyaakov/Dudi Malits

Birth date: August 5th, 1981 (39 years old)

Country: Israel

Known for: Winner of the first season of Big Brother VIP

Occupation: Media expert and retired model

David (Dudi) Malits (born Aug 5, 1981) is an Israeli marketing and PR expert.

Malits was raised in Kiryat Tivon and educated at the Carmel Zevulun School, part of the Zevulun Regional Council. After his military service, he moved to Tel Aviv, integrating into the city's nightlife, modeling, and entertainment scenes.

The media connections he made during those years were used to launch his firm, DM Communications. Focused on PR, strategic consultations, crisis management, online reputation management, and online marketing, the firm works with various local and international finance and tech companies.

Malits' name was tied to high-profile media crises such as the Trade Marketplace Association crisis, the personal and business crisis of the real-estate developer Inbal Or, the dispute placed by judoka Alice Schlesinger, and various finance, real estate, and other media events.

His firm, DM Communications, is known to consult significant finance and tech organizations such as Deutsche Bank, Elron, RDC, Sony Semiconductor, Sentinel One, and other tech ventures, finance brands, and businesses.

Malits is married to Lana Katz, and they have two children.

In the entertainment industry
Between 2001 and 2009, he worked as a model, cast in advertisements for Maccabi Beer, Delta briefs for men, Click, and others.

He also took part in campaigns and fashion shows for the denim brand Wrangler, Speedo, Versace, and more. In addition, he was included in video clips for songs such as Just Another Day by Ohad Hitman and Want Only You by Maya Bouskilla, worked as a Y-on-10 field correspondent, and more.

In his early 20s, he had a public relationship with the singer Maya Bouskilla.

In 2009 he participated and won the first season of Big Brother VIP.

Media activity

 * In 2011, he started working at a PR firm, launching his own firm shortly after.
 * Today his firm is focused on local and international PR, reputation management, and online marketing.
 * The firm usually works with companies and organizations in finance and tech, managing crises in various fields.
 * In 2013 he ran all media activity in the dispute placed by the judoka Alice Schlesinger against the Israeli Judo Association. The height of the conflict took place at a press conference he arranged for her in December 2013, in which she announced she will not be representing Israel in the future.
 * In August 2016, he started working with the real estate entrepreneur Inbal Or, who was in the midst of a severe legal and media crisis.
 * In 2018, DM Communications started representing the online payment giant MoneyNetInt.
 * In 2019, it was reported that his office started representing Elron, a public company, IDB's tech investment arm, and one of the founders of Elbit, Elscint, and Netvision. His firm was also reported to start representing RDC - a Rafael subsidiary and their investment arm for civilian cyber and IT technologies.
 * In 2019, it was reported that DM Communications started representing Sony Semiconductor (previously Altrair), part of the international Sony Group and one of the world's leading manufacturer of microchips for IoT.
 * In 2020 the firm started working with Deutsche Bank.
 * In 2020 it was reported that DM Communications started working with the cyber giant SentinelOne.