Ronen Bergman
Ronen Bergman | |
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 Bergman in 2008 | |
| Native name | רונן ברגמן |
| Born | June 16, 1972 Kiryat Bialik |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Education | |
| Genre | Investigative journalism |
| Notable works | Rise and Kill First (2018) |
| Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (2024) |
| Website | |
| ronenbergman | |
Ronen Bergman (Hebrew: רונן ברגמן; born June 16, 1972) is an Israeli investigative journalist and author. He is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, based in Tel Aviv, and a senior political and military analyst for Yedioth Ahronoth. He previously wrote for Haaretz.[1] He won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Gaza war.[2]
Biography
[edit]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]
Bergman 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 at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in the United Kingdom, where he received a Master of Philosophy in international relations and a PhD in history.[4][5] His PhD thesis was titled "Israel and Africa: military and intelligence liaisons".[6]
Career as a journalist
[edit]Bergman has written in the weekly HaOlam HaZeh, in Shoken network locales and in Haaretz,[5] and since 2000 he has been writing in the "7 Days" supplement of Yedioth 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 the Abu 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, and Teddy Kollek's connections with British intelligence.[7][8]
A topic that Bergman dealt with for many years was the senior Egyptian source who reported the plans for the Yom Kippur War to the head of the Mossad, Zvi Zamir, and was nicknamed "Babylon" by Bergman. Following Bergman's and other journalists' exposure, it became known that the man was Ashraf Marwan.[9][10]
In 2018, Bergman joined The New York Times Magazine as a staff writer after having been a contributing writer to the magazine for several years. He serves as one of The New York Times's correspondents in Tel Aviv and covers the Middle East.
Books
[edit]- 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
[edit]Bergman won several journalism awards:
- 1995 B'nai B'rith Worlds Center Award for Journalism
- 1996 Haaretz award for Best Story.
- 2017 Sokolov Prize for "a series of important and courageous journalistic exposures starting from what was done at the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute to the scandal of the dangerous vaccines against smallpox, the disclosure of the communication tapes of the Yom Kippur War and the recent conversations with the former head of the Mossad Meir Dagan."[11]
- 2017 Paul Harris prize.[12]
- 2021 special commendation by the Asian Media Owners Association.
- 2024 Pulitzer Prize in the International Reporting category, together with The New York Times team for a series of investigations and revelations related to the Gaza war.[13][14]
Further reading
[edit]- Ronen Bergman, Living to Bomb Another Day, The New York Times, September 9, 2008
- Ronen Bergman and Mark 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
References
[edit]- ^ "Ronen Bergman". Big Think. 2010. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
- ^ ynet (2024-05-06). "Ronen Bergman and staff of NYT win Pulitzer for coverage of Gaza war". Ynetnews. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Bergman, Ronen (2007). Israel and Africa : military and intelligence liaisons (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. Retrieved 2025-07-14.
- ^ טדי קולק - מלשן נאלח. www.news1.co.il (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2024-05-07.
- ^ Persico, Oren (2008-10-27). הרגו את הסיפור [Killed the story]. העין השביעית (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2024-05-07.
- ^ פיאלקוב, רונן ברגמן ואור (2020-09-25). "חשיפה: המרגל המצרי שהציל את מדינת ישראל". Ynet (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2024-05-07.
- ^ Melman, Yossi (2010-05-27). "Victim of the 'espionage game'". Haaretz. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
- ^ Turgeman, Meir (June 26, 2017). Journalist Ronen Bergman wins Sokolow Prize. Ynet.
- ^ Atadgi, Asher (October 26, 2017). Prize to Dr. Ronen Bergman. Mynet.
- ^ Ynet (2024-05-06). "Ronen Bergman, journalist for NYT and Ynet, wins Pulitzer for war coverage". Ynetnews. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
- ^ "Ronen Bergman, journalist for NYT and Ynet, wins Pulitzer for war coverage". Ground News. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
External links
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Media related to Ronen Bergman at Wikimedia Commons
- Israeli journalists
- Israeli television presenters
- People from Kiryat Bialik
- Academic staff of Tel Aviv University
- Israeli people of Polish-Jewish descent
- Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
- Living people
- 1972 births
- Israeli non-fiction writers
- University of Haifa alumni
- Yedioth Ahronoth people
- Sokolov Award recipients