Ehud Yaari

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Ehud Ya'ari (1945 -) (Hebrew: אֶהוּד יָעָרִי‎) is an Israeli journalist, author, television personality and political commentator.

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Ehud Ya'ari was born in 1945. He was married to Hava Ya'ari. They divorced after she was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder.^[1]

Ehud Ya'ari is an expert on Middle Eastern affairs. He is the author of eight books on the Arab-Israeli conflict, some in collaboration with Ze'ev Schiff. He has interviewed Yasser Arafat, King Hussein of Jordan and his son Abdullah, President Husni Mubarak of Egypt, almost all Israeli prime ministers since Menachem Begin (including Yitzhak Rabin), Bashar al-Assad, Muammar al-Gaddafi and others. Today, Ya'ari is a political commentator for Israel's Channel 2 news. Yaari is an associate editor of The Jerusalem Report and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He is also Senior Fellow at the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies. Ya'ari has published articles in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Atlantic Monthly.^[2]

Israeli Press Editors-in-Chief prize for coverage of the peace process with Egypt
Sokolov Prize for coverage of the Lebanon War
Israel Broadcasting Award for coverage of the Gulf War

"Fatah" (Sabra Books, 1971)
"Egypt's Policy Towards Israel in the Fifties" (1974)
"A Guide to Egypt" (1982)
"The Year of the Dove", co-authored with Ze'ev Schiff (Bantam, 1979)
"Israel's Lebanon War" (Simon and Schuster, 1984)
"Intifada", co-authored with Ze'ev Schiff (Simon and Schuster, 1990)
"Toward Israeli-Palestinian Disengagement" and “Peace by Piece: A Decade of Egyptian Policy”.