Yossi Melman
Yossi Melman (Hebrew: יוסי מלמן, born December 27, 1950) is an Israeli writer and journalist. He was an intelligence and strategic affairs correspondent for the Haaretz newspaper, and in 2013 he joined The Jerusalem Post and its Hebrew sister paper Maariv in a similar, more analytical role covering also military issues. In 2019 he returned to Haaretz.[1]
Biography
Yosef "Yossi" Melman was born in Poland. The family immigrated to Israel in 1957, when he was six years old.
Since 1974, Melman has worked in various capacities in the Israeli media. He has worked for 27 years in the Israeli Haaretz daily as a senior correspondent on national security, intelligence and strategic issues. Melman was involved in several legal and public battles to lift gag orders issued by Israeli courts and censors.
He wrote 10
In 2016 he was a consultant and protagonist in
In 2017 he created with director Duki Dror a four-part TV documentary called The Mossad Cover Story.[3] The series received good reviews in the Israeli media.[4] In 2019, it was aired by Netflix under the title Inside The Mossad.
Melman is an avid runner and triathlete who ran 35
In 2020, US President Donald Trump retweeted Melman's account of the killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, head of the nuclear program of Iran.[6]
In 2022 he wrote (together with Marc Dugain) the script for the French-Hebrew-English film and series Munich: Of Games And Blood (Des Jeux Et Du Sang Munich 1972) directed by Philippe Saada.[7]
Melman is married to Billie Rozensweig, a Tel Aviv-born Israeli historian. They have two children: Yotam and Daria.
Views and opinions
Melman has stated that he considers himself a left-wing Israeli, and that Israel must abandon the occupied territories to live in peace with a
While supporting the peace process with the Palestinians, Melman believes that Israel must retain its strong military capabilities, including its nuclear deterrence.
Melman was described by WikiLeaks in February 2012 as an "information mule" who had "channeled tips to the Mossad", assertions that were contested by Melman in his review of his relationship with Julian Assange, whom he believes has made anti-Semitic statements.[9]
Awards
Yossi Melman was twice (in 1994 and in 2017, together with Dan Raviv) the recipient of the Simon Rockower Award for Excellence in Jewish Journalism and of the 1995 Boris Smolar Award of Excellence in International News or Feature Reporting, on behalf of the American Jewish Press Association.[10]
In 2003 together with a few other members of the ICIJ investigative team he has received a special award for their coverage "Making a Killing: The Business of War", a project of 11 feature articles on worldwide arms dealers, oil and diamond merchants in Third World countries.
In 2004 survey among Haaretz readers, Melman was selected as the Most Outstanding and Interesting Writer.
In 2007 participated together with ICIJ reporters
In 2008, Melman won an award from the Investigative Reporters and Editors Association (IRE) for his report on a Jordanian Palestinian held illegally by American, Israeli and Jordanian security services.[11]
In 2009 he received the Sokolov Award, Israel's foremost award for journalism, on account of his investigative work and breaking news about the Israeli security establishment.
Published work
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Booknotes interview with Melman and Dan Raviv on Every Spy a Prince, August 5, 1990, C-SPAN |
- The Master Terrorist: The True Story of Abu-Nidal, translated by Shmuel Himelstein (Adama Books, 1986), ISBN 0-915361-52-3
- The Imperfect Spies: The History of Israeli Intelligence (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1989), ASIN B0007BR81Q
- Behind the Uprising: Israelis, Jordanians, and Palestinians, written with ISBN 0-313-26787-1
- The New Israelis: An Intimate View of a Changing People (Carol Publishing Corporation, 1992), ISBN 1-55972-129-4
- Friends in Deed: Inside the U.S.-Israel Alliance, written with Dan Raviv (ISBN 0-7868-6006-5
- ISBN 0-395-47102-8
- ISBN 978-0985437817
- The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran: Mahmoud Ahmadinajed and the State of Iran written with Meir Javedanfar (Caroll&Graf, 2007) ISBN 0786721065
References
- ^ Tweet by the paper's editor.
- ^ Booknotes interview with Melman and Dan Raviv on Every Spy a Prince, August 5, 1990. Archived November 15, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Part one of the series.
- ^ Article in Haaretz (in Hebrew).
- ^ Melman, Yossi (January 5, 2017), "Run for a lifetime", The Jerusalem Post.
- ^ Qiblawi, Tamara, Nick Paton Walsh, Ramin Mostaghim, Mostafa Salem and Ivana Kottasová. "Iran's top nuclear scientist killed in apparent assassination, state media reports". CNN. Archived from the original on November 27, 2020. Retrieved November 27, 2020.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Munich: Of Games and Blood
- ^ Melman, Yossi (September 20, 2002), "We cannot have them back", The Guardian. Retrieved November 2, 2006.
- Tablet Magazine. Retrieved March 21, 2012.
- ^ "The 36th Annual Simon Rockower Award Winners - American Jewish Press Association". www.ajpa.org. Archived from the original on 2017-06-21.
- ^ Carmel, Asaf (July 1, 2008). "Haaretz journalist wins investigative reporting award". Haaretz.