Education and Early Career
After completing his service in the IDF, Shalom attended Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, from which he received a BA in Economics as well as a CPA. Certification. During that time, Shalom was elected as the chairman of the university's students' union and later as the vice chairman of the national students union. He later attended Tel Aviv University, from which he received an LLB law degree as well as an MA in Public Policy. Shalom started as a journalist. While working on his first degree, he began to work as a journalist at the Yediot Aharonot newspaper in the student section. After that he started working in the "Rosh Berosh" magazine and in the Negev's local newspaper. In 1980 he moved to Tel Aviv and started working at the now-defunct Hadashot newspaper. In 1984, he was appointed as its head political and economical correspondent.
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