Ronen Bergman is Pulitzer Prize winner, a New York Times staff writer and a Senior Correspondent for Military and Intelligence Affairs for Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel’s largest circulated daily. In addition to The Pulitzer, the NYTimes team Ronen is a member of, won The Geroge Polk Award and The Foreign Press Club Award, all for the coverage of the Israel-Gaza war. He is also the recipient of the Sokolow Award, Israel’s most esteemed prize for journalism.
Bergman is the author of six bestselling Hebrew and English language nonfiction books. His lastest, a New York Times Bestseller, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations, was received with raving reviews, won The National Jewish Book Award, translated into 25 langueages and chosen and as one of the best 10 books of the year by the New York Times and The Economist.
John Le Carre wrote it is “remarkable feat of fearless and responsible reporting… stark and sensational.” The New York Times book review observed:” An exceptional work, a humane book about an incendiary subject…This book is full of shocking moments, surprising disturbances in a narrative full of fateful twists and unintended consequences. It moves at a torrid pace and tells stories that would make Jason Bourne sit up and say ‘Wow!”
Writing extensively on intelligence, national security, terrorism, cyber weapons, and nuclear affairs, he is internationally recognized as one of the leading experts in his field and “arguably Israel’s best investigative journalist,” according to David Remnick of The New Yorker. Ronen covered the war in Ukraine for many months, and has been reporting from the battle zones in Gaza and along the Israel-Lebanon border. A member of the Israeli bar, he graduated with honors