Benn has been covering Israel's wars and diplomacy since the Oslo Accords of 1993, through six successive pime ministers, the peace processes with Syria and the Palestinians, the intifada, the Mideast road map, Arab Spring and the current crisis. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, and Newsweek, and he is a regular contributor to The Guardian. Benn holds an MBA degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and a degree from Tel Aviv University. …More

Veteran reporter and columnist Aluf Benn has been named editor-in-chief of the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz. Benn's appointment by the newspaper's board of directors was announced Monday, the same day he started in the job. Benn, 46, has been at the left-leaning newspaper for the past 22 years. He has served as diplomatic correspondent, head of the news division and, for the past two years, political commentator and editor of the opinion pages. His articles and columns have been published in newspapers around …More