Ronen Bergman
Ronen Bergman (
Bergman has written for
He has published four books in Hebrew, which topped Israeli non-fiction best-seller lists. His books cover corruption in the
A translation of his third book, The Secret War with Iran, was published by
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. His parents were both Holocaust survivors.[3]
He did his military service in the Israel Defense Forces in the intelligence unit of the Military Police Corps. After his military service, he studied law at the University of Haifa, graduated cum laude, and was admitted to the Israel Bar Association. He later studied history and international relations at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge[4] in the United Kingdom, and was awarded an M.Phil. degree in international relations and a PhD (for his dissertation on the Israeli Mossad) by the University of Cambridge.[5]
He is a member of the Körber Foundation "Munich Young Leaders 2010"[citation needed] and participated in the 46th Munich Security Conference.
He is a former senior staff feature writer for Haaretz.[5]
Bergman is the recipient of the 1995
In 2017 he won the
Published works
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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
Books
- And The Authority Is Given (2002)
- Moment of Truth (2003)
- Point Of No Return (2007)
- The Secret War With Iran (2008)
- By Any Means Necessary (2009)
- Ha-Bor (The Pit) (2011) with Dan Margalit
- special chapters for the Hebrew edition of the State Enemy WikiLeaks (2011) by Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark.
- Operation Red Falcon (2015)[8]
- Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations (Jan 23, 2018)[9]
Awards
- 2018: National Jewish Book Awards in the History category for Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations[10]
References
- ^ "Ronen Bergman". Big Think. 2010. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
- ^ "The New York Times Magazine Masthead". The New York Times. March 2011. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
- ^ Davies, Dave (January 31, 2018). "Journalist Details Israel's 'Secret History' Of Targeted Assassinations". Fresh Air. NPR. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
- ^ "Cambridge Alumni News Highlights: January - March 2018 - Cambridge in America". www.cantab.org.
- ^ a b Green, David (2008). "A conversation with Ronen Bergman". Haaretz. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
- ^ Turgeman, Meir (June 26, 2017). Journalist Ronen Bergman wins Sokolow Prize. Ynet.
- ^ Atadgi, Asher (October 26, 2017). Prize to Dr. Ronen Bergman. Mynet.
- ^ Operation Red Falcon. Atavist e-book.
- ^ Rise and Kill First. Penguin Random House site.
- ^ "Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
Further reading
- Official website
- Ronen Bergman, The Secret War with Iran
- Ronen Bergman, Living to Bomb Another Day, The New York Times, September 9, 2008
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