Ronen Bergman

Ronen Bergman, 2013

Ronen Bergman (Hebrew: רונן ברגמן‎‎; born June 16, 1972) is an Israeli investigative journalist and author. He is a senior political and military analyst for Yedioth Ahronoth,[1] Israel’s largest-circulation daily.

Bergman has written for The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, and Newsweek in the United States, and for The Times, The Guardian, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and the Sueddeutsche Zeitung in Europe. He is also interviewed frequently by the media in the United States and Europe, and his work is often quoted in Middle Eastern newspapers in Arabic and Persian.

He has published four books in Hebrew, which were all well received, and which topped Israeli non-fiction best-seller lists. His books cover corruption in the Palestinian Authority, the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the Iranian nuclear project, and Israeli POWs and MIAs.

A translation of his third book, The Secret War with Iran, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2008. The book appeared in the Boston Globe’s recommended reading list for summer 2009.

He is a regular co-anchor of a daytime news and current affairs magazine on Israeli TV. He often appears on major U.S. broadcasting networks and the BBC, and is a frequent guest on Al-Jazeera.

Bergman lectures frequently to academic and military audiences, as well as to the general public. He has been a guest lecturer at academic forums at major universities in Israel and abroad, including Princeton, Yale, Columbia, New York University, Oxford, and Cambridge, and at military and intelligence forums in Israel, the United States and England.

Biography

Bergman was born in 1972, and grew up in Kiryat Bialik. His mother was a teacher and his father was an accountant. He is the youngest of three children. As a boy, he was a reporter for a youth television show.

He studied law at the University of Haifa, and graduated cum laude from its law school. He is a member of the Israeli Bar. He also studied history and international relations at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, and was awarded an M.Phil. degree in international relations, and then a PhD for his dissertation on the Israeli Mossad.[2]

He is a member of the Körber Foundation "Munich Young Leaders 2010" and participated in the prestigious the "Munich 46 Security Conference".

He is a former senior staff feature writer for Haaretz.[2]

Bergman is the recipient of the 1995 Bnei Brith Worlds Center Award for Journalism and the 1996 Ha’aretz award for Best Story.

Published works

Bergman’s articles are often based on classified military and intelligence material to which he has been granted exclusive access. Over the years, he has brought to light numerous issues of considerable public interest, including: the diversion of Palestinian tax revenues to the personal bank account of Yassir Arafat; the production of fertilizer from the bones of Holocaust victims at an Italian factory during World War II; the sale by an Israeli businessman of dual-use chemical raw materials and technology to Iran; the medical file of Prime Minister Rabin compiled on the night of his assassination; the case of “Agent Babylon,” the aide to Egyptian President Sadat who was an Israeli spy; the first interviews ever published with members of the Mossad’s special ops unit; medical experiments conducted on Israeli soldiers as part of joint U.S.-Israeli efforts to develop a vaccine against anthrax; and various institutional corruption scandals in Israel.

Throughout his journalistic career, Bergman has championed the causes of freedom of information and freedom of the press, often taking his battles with the Israeli security establishment to the courts in order to protect the public’s right to know, and his right to publish reports that are of public interest.

Books

References

  1. ↑ Big Think (2010). "Ronen Bergman". Big Think. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
  2. 1 2 Green, David (2008). "A conversation with Ronen Bergman". Haartez. Retrieved 8 March 2010.

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