Ronen Bergman
Staff Writer, The New York Times and Senior National Security Correspondent, Yedioth Ahronoth
Ronen Bergman is a New York Times staff writer and senior national security correspondent for Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel’s largest circulated daily. He is a Pulitzer Prize winner, and was a member of the New York Times team that won a George Polk Award and an Overseas Press Club of America Award for coverage of the Israel-Gaza war. He is also the recipient of the Sokolow Award, Israel’s most esteemed prize for journalism.
Writing extensively on intelligence, weapons, nuclear national security, terrorism, and cyber affairs, Bergman is internationally recognised as a leading expert in his field. He covered the war in Ukraine for many months and has reported from battle zones in Gaza and along the Israel-Lebanon border. A member of the Israeli bar, he graduated with honours from the University of Haifa Faculty of Law and clerked in Israel’s Attorney General’s office.
Bergman is the author of six bestselling Hebrew and English-language non-fiction books. His 2018 title Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations is a New York Times bestseller and won The National Jewish Book Award.
