Donald Neff is an American journalist. He spent 16 years in service for Time Magazine, and is a former Time Magazine Bureau Chief in Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

. He also worked for the Washington Star

Washington Star

The Washington Star, previously known as the Washington Star-News and the Washington Evening Star, was a daily afternoon newspaper published in Washington, D.C. between 1852 and 1981. For most of that time, it was the city's newspaper of record, and the longtime home to columnist Mary McGrory and...

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Last name changed from "Schnepf". According to email sent to John Neff Mon 4/25/2011 2:50 PM from David Neff: "I am not really a Neff/Naf. My great-grandfather was born a Schnepf in Lancaster County, PA, and at some point changed his name to Neff, a common enough name there".

Career

Presently he writes mainly for the London-based Middle East International and the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs magazine, published nine times per year in Washington, D.C., focuses on "news and analysis from and about the Middle East and U.S...

, and is the author of several books.

He works for the pro-Palestine organization If Americans Knew

If Americans Knew

If Americans Knew is a nonprofit organization that focuses on the Arab–Israeli conflict and the Foreign policy of the United States regarding the Middle East, offering analysis of American media coverage of these issues. Its mission, according to the group's website, is to provide "what every...

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Awards

In 1980 he received the O.P.C.'s Mary Hemingway Award for best magazine reporting from abroad.

Published work

• Donald Neff: Warriors at Suez: Eisenhower Takes America Into the Middle East, Simon And Schuster, New York, 1981. ISBN 978-0-671-41010-0
• Donald Neff: Warriors for Jerusalem: The Six Days That Changed the Middle East, ISBN 978-0-671-45485-2 Linden Press / Simon & Schuster. 1984.
• Donald Neff: Warriors Against Israel, How Israel Won the Battle to Become America's Ally 1973, 1988. Brattleboro [VT], ISBN 978-0-915597-59-8 The book is about How Israel won the battle to become America's ally in 1973.
• Donald Neff: Fifty Years of Israel American Educational Trust, Paperback, 1998 (A collection of 54 articles he has published in the Washington Report over the past several year)
• Donald Neff: Fallen Pillars U.S. Policy towards Palestine and Israel since 1945 Institute for Palestine Studies
  Institute for Palestine Studies
  The Institute for Palestine Studies is the oldest independent non-profit, public service, research institute in the Arab world, was established and incorporated in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1963 and has since served as a model for other such institutes in the region...
  
  , in Washington, DC, 1995 ISBN 978-0-88728-262-1 (reprinted 2002)
• West Bank Crackdown Time Magazine, Apr. 3, 1978
• Israel Lurks Behind Harsh U.S. Policy Aimed Against Iran Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
  Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
  The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs magazine, published nine times per year in Washington, D.C., focuses on "news and analysis from and about the Middle East and U.S...
  
  , February/March 1996, Pages 88, 91-92
• Ex-Terrorist Shamir Becomes the Likud’s New Leader of Israel WRMEA, October 1996, p. 87
• U.S. Had to Wage Long Battle Against Israel's Technology Transfers to China WRMEA, June/July 1997, pgs. 70-72
• Battle of Karameh Establishes Claim of Palestinian Statehood, WRMEA, March 1998, Pages 87–88
• How George Shultz Became the Most Pro-Israel Secretary Of State, WRMEA, April 1998, Page 78-79
• From Its Beginning, Israeli Policy Promoted War, Not Peace, WRMEA, May/June 1998, Pages 80, 82
• Sadat’s Jerusalem Trip Begins Difficult Path of Egyptian-Israeli Peace, WRMEA, October/November 1998, pages 83–85
• Jewish Terrorists Try to Assassinate Three Palestinian Mayors, WRMEA, June 1999, pages 87–88
• Jewish Defense League Unleashes Campaign of Violence in America, WRMEA, July/August 1999
• An Updated List of Vetoes Cast by the United States to Shield Israel from Criticism by the U.N. Security Council, WRMEA, May/June 2005, page 14