Matthew Kalman

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Matthew Kalman is the co-author, with Matt Rees, of The Murder of Yasser Arafat, published in January 2013.

Kalman has been a foreign

London Sunday Times, and the Canadian The Globe and Mail
.

He is currently working with the London-based The Independent.

Kalman was appointed editor in chief of The

Jerusalem Report in January 2012.[3][4] and held the position until August 2012, resigning when asked to "implement a 10 per cent budget cut demanded by the management." Kalman said "I would rather resign than try to produce the magazine on even more of a shoestring than we currently have."[5]

Kalman has also reported for and is a television contributor for PBS in the United States, and Channel 4 News, UK,[6][7] and CTV in Canada.

He is a commentator for BBC Radio[8] in Britain, and other radio programs in Canada as well.

Kalman was the only reporter present throughout the 7-year James Ossuary trial in Jerusalem of Oded Golan, accused of faking the ossuary, or burial box, of James, the brother of Jesus.[9][10] He thoroughly chronicled the events online.[11][12]

In 1999, then-Hamas leader

Sheikh Ahmed Yassin made a peace offer to the incoming Israeli government of Ehud Barak during an interview with Kalman.[13][14]

In 2008, he co-directed and co-produced, with David Blumenfeld, the documentary Circumcise Me: The Comedy of Yisrael Campbell, which has been screened at more than 50 film festivals in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and on TV in the US and Israel.[15][16]

He graduated

Cambridge University with an MA in History.[7] In 1983/84, he had been chairman of the Union of Jewish Students
.

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