Akiva Eldar is an
IsraelIsrael officially the State of Israel , is a developed state in Western Asia located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its...
i
journalistA journalist is a person who practises journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues, and people while striving for viewpoints that are not biased.Reporters are one type of journalist...
and author, currently a chief political
columnistA columnist is a journalist who writes for publication in a series, creating copy that can sometimes be strongly opinionated. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and other publications, including blogs on the Internet....
and editorial writer for the Israeli national daily Ha'aretz. His columns also appear regularly in the Ha'aretz-
International Herald TribuneThe International Herald Tribune is a widely read English-language international newspaper. It combines the resources of its own correspondents with those of The New York Times and is printed at 35 sites throughout the world, for sale in more than 180 countries...
edition, as well as in the Japanese daily
Mainichi ShimbunThe is one of the major newspapers in Japan, published by .-History:The history of the Mainichi Shinbun begins with founding of two papers during the Meiji period. The Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun was founded first, in 1872. The Mainichi claims that it is the oldest existing Japanese daily newspaper...
. He lectured at the School of Journalism in
Tel Aviv UniversityTel Aviv University is a public university located in Ramat Aviv, Israel. In 2006, it had 29,000 students.-History:...
and is also a consultant at
CBS NewsCBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. Its current president is Sean McManus who is also head of CBS Sports...
.
Eldar graduated from the
Hebrew University of JerusalemThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem is Israel's oldest university....
, where he majored in Economics, Political Science and Psychology.
Akiva Eldar is an
IsraelIsrael officially the State of Israel , is a developed state in Western Asia located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its...
i
journalistA journalist is a person who practises journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues, and people while striving for viewpoints that are not biased.Reporters are one type of journalist...
and author, currently a chief political
columnistA columnist is a journalist who writes for publication in a series, creating copy that can sometimes be strongly opinionated. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and other publications, including blogs on the Internet....
and editorial writer for the Israeli national daily Ha'aretz. His columns also appear regularly in the Ha'aretz-
International Herald TribuneThe International Herald Tribune is a widely read English-language international newspaper. It combines the resources of its own correspondents with those of The New York Times and is printed at 35 sites throughout the world, for sale in more than 180 countries...
edition, as well as in the Japanese daily
Mainichi ShimbunThe is one of the major newspapers in Japan, published by .-History:The history of the Mainichi Shinbun begins with founding of two papers during the Meiji period. The Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun was founded first, in 1872. The Mainichi claims that it is the oldest existing Japanese daily newspaper...
. He lectured at the School of Journalism in
Tel Aviv UniversityTel Aviv University is a public university located in Ramat Aviv, Israel. In 2006, it had 29,000 students.-History:...
and is also a consultant at
CBS NewsCBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. Its current president is Sean McManus who is also head of CBS Sports...
.
Eldar graduated from the
Hebrew University of JerusalemThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem is Israel's oldest university....
, where he majored in Economics, Political Science and Psychology. After that he served as spokesperson for former Mayor of Jerusalem,
Teddy KollekTheodor "Teddy" Kollek was mayor of Jerusalem from 1965 to 1993, as well as founder of the Jerusalem Foundation. Kollek was re-elected five times, in 1969, 1973, 1978, 1983 and 1989. After reluctantly running for a seventh term in 1993 at the age of 82, he lost to Likud candidate and future Prime...
. Then he was reporter and editor at the
Israeli Public RadioKol Yisrael is Israel's public domestic and international radio service, operated as a division of the Israel Broadcasting Authority....
. Eldar has been with Ha'aretz since 1978, in 1983-1993 he was the diplomatic
correspondentA correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is a journalist or commentator who contributes reports to a newspaper, or radio or television news, from a remote, often distant, location. A foreign correspondent is stationed in a foreign country. The term correspondent refers to the original practice of...
for Ha'aretz. In 1993-1996 he served as Ha'aretz
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
Bureau Chief and
Washington, D.C.Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790...
correspondent, covering the
peace processThe peace process in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict has taken shape over the years, despite the ongoing violence in the Middle East and an "all or nothing" attitude about a lasting peace, "which prevailed for most of the twentieth century"...
,
Israel-United States relationsIsrael–United States relations are an important factor in overall United States policy in the Middle East. The United States Congress places considerable importance on the maintenance of a close and supportive relationship. The main expression of support for Israel has been foreign aid, which...
, American issues and Israel-
DiasporaThe Jewish diaspora , the presence of Jews outside of the Land of Israel, is a result of the expulsion or emigration of Jews from Israel...
relations. He was a special consultant to
Abba EbanAbba Eban was an Israeli diplomat and politician.-Political career:...
's
PBS televisionThe Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television service with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. However, its operations are largely funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting...
documentaries on the
history of IsraelThe State of Israel was established on May 14, 1948 after nearly two thousand years of Jewish dispersal, and after 55 years of efforts to create a Jewish homeland . The 61 years since Israeli independence have been marked by conflict with neighbouring Arab states and the Palestinian-Arabs...
and the
Oslo accordsThe Oslo Accords, officially called the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements or Declaration of Principles became a milestone toward the resolution of the Palestinian - Israeli conflict, one of the major continuing issues within the wider Arab-Israeli conflict...
.
In October 2007 Akiva Eldar has won the annual Eliav-Sartawi award for Middle Eastern journalism, awarded by
Search for Common GroundSearch for Common Ground is an international non-profit organization operating in 18 countries whose mission is to transform the way the world deals with conflict – away from adversarial approaches toward cooperative solutions. It is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with the majority of its...
, an international conflict transformation organization, sharing it with
JordanJordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in Western Asia spanning the southern part of the Syrian Desert down to the Gulf of Aqaba. Jordan shares borders with Syria to the north, Iraq to the northeast, Saudi Arabia to the east and south, the Gulf of Aqaba to the southwest,...
ian journalist Salameh Nematt.
Books
Akiva Eldar is the co-author of the biography of
Shimon Peres' is the ninth and current President of the State of Israel. Peres served twice as Prime Minister of Israel and once as Interim Prime Minister, and has been a member of 12 cabinets in a political career spanning over 66 years...
; he is also the co-author (with Prof. Idith Zertal) of book
Lords of the Land: The War Over Israel?s Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007 (Nation Books, 2007) ISBN 1-5685-8370-2
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