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Bergman in 2008

Ronen Bergman (Hebrew: רונן ברגמן; born June 16, 1972) is an Israeli investigative journalist and author. He previously wrote for Haaretz, and as of 2010, was a senior political and military analyst for Yedioth Ahronoth.[1]

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.[2]

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[3] 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.[4]

He is a former senior staff feature writer for Haaretz.[4]

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

In 2017 he won the Sokolov Prize.[5] In the same year he won the Rotary Paul Harris prize.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Ronen Bergman". Big Think. 2010. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
  2. ^ Davies, Dave (January 31, 2018). "Journalist Details Israel's 'Secret History' Of Targeted Assassinations". Fresh Air. NPR. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
  3. ^ "Cambridge Alumni News Highlights: January - March 2018 - Cambridge in America". www.cantab.org.
  4. ^ a b Green, David (2008). "A conversation with Ronen Bergman". Haaretz. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
  5. ^ Turgeman, Meir (June 26, 2017). Journalist Ronen Bergman wins Sokolow Prize. Ynet.
  6. ^ Atadgi, Asher (October 26, 2017). Prize to Dr. Ronen Bergman. Mynet.

Further reading

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronen_Bergman