david meidan (born in 1955) is a former mossad official, serving as prime minister benjamin netanyahu's coordinator on the issue of pows and mias. served as personal representative of prime minister netanyahu in the gilad shalit prisoner exchange - negotiations for the release of kidnapped idf soldier gilad shalit, and was perceived as bringing to the closure the deal. recently, meidan was also appointed as special envoy to turkey in an effort to bring back warm relations between jerusalem and ankara.