Ronen Bergman

Ronen Bergman
Bergman in 2008
Born	June 16, 1972 Kiryat Bialik
Alma mater	University of Haifa,Corpus Christi College
Genre	Investigative journalism
Notable works	Rise and Kill First
Website
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Ronen Bergman(Hebrew:רונן ברגמן;born June 16, 1972) is anIsraeliinvestigative journalistand author. He previously wrote forHaaretz,and as of 2010, was a senior political and military analyst forYedioth Ahronoth.He won aPulitzer Prizefor his coverage of theIsrael–Hamas war.

Biography

Bergman was born in 1972, and grew up inKiryat 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. His parents were bothHolocaust survivors.

He did his military service in theIsrael Defense Forcesin the intelligence unit of theMilitary Police Corps.After his military service, he studied law at theUniversity of Haifa,graduatedcum laude,and was admitted to theIsrael Bar Association.He later studied history and international relations atCorpus Christi College, Cambridgein theUnited Kingdom,and was awarded aM.Phil.degree in international relations and aPhD(for his dissertation on the IsraeliMossad) by theUniversity of Cambridge.

Career as a journalist

Bergman has written in the weeklyHaOlam HaZeh,in Shoken network locales and inHaaretz,and since 2000 he has been writing in the "7 Days" supplement ofYedioth Ahronoth,and is a part of the editorial team of the newspaper.

Bergman is an expert on intelligence, security, terrorism and the Middle East. He is a lecturer at various forums in Israel and the United States. During his career, he has exposed a number of scandals, including failures at theAbu Kabir Forensic Institute,Nahum Manbar's connections to the Iranian arms industry,Yasser Arafat's secret bank account, the case of the broken smallpox vaccines prepared for the Gulf War, andTeddy Kollek's connections with British intelligence.

One of the topics that Bergman dealt with for many years is the senior Egyptian source who reported the plans for theYom Kippur Warto the head of theMossad,Zvi Zamir,and was nicknamed "Babylon" by Bergman. Following Bergman's and other journalists' exposure, it became known that the man wasAshraf Marwan.

In 2018, Bergman joinedThe New York Timesas an editorial member. He was appointed the magazine's correspondent in the Middle East, and serves as a reporter for the weekly supplement ofThe New York Times Magazine.

Books

• Authority Granted,2002
• Moment of Truth,2003
• Point Of No Return,2007
• The Secret War With Iran,2008
• By Any Means Necessary,2009
• Operation Red Falcon,2015
• Rise and Kill First:The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations, 2018

Awards and recognition

Bergman won several journalism awards:

• 1995B'nai B'rithWorlds Center Award for Journalism
• 1996Haaretzaward for Best Story.
• 2017Sokolov Prizeof written media for "a series of important and courageous journalistic exposures starting from what was done at theAbu Kabir Forensic Instituteto the scandal of the dangerous vaccines against smallpox, the disclosure of the communication tapes of theYom Kippur Warand the recent conversations with the former head of the MossadMeir Dagan."
• 2017Paul Harrisprize.
• 2021 special commendation by the Asian Media Owners Association.
• 2024Pulitzer Prizein the international reporting category, together withThe New York Timesteam for a series of investigations and revelations related to theIsrael–Hamas war.

Further reading

• Ronen Bergman,The Secret War with Iran
• Ronen Bergman,Living to Bomb Another Day,The New York Times,September 9, 2008
• Ronen Bergman andMark Mazzetti:The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israel -After 50 years of failure to stop violence and terrorism against Palestinians by Jewish ultranationalists, lawlessness has become the law.,May 16, 2024,The New York Times

External links

Media related toRonen Bergmanat Wikimedia Commons

• Official website