Ronen Bergman

His work contributed to The New York Times ' 2024 Pulitzer Prize win for its coverage of the Gaza war.

Ronen Bergman studied at Corpus Christi College and University of Haifa. The recorded working language is Hebrew and English. The field of work recorded is journalism, investigative journalism and opinion journalism. Employment is recorded with Tel Aviv University, Yedioth Ahronoth and The New York Times. Works named in the authority record are On verso of t.p. and Rise and Kill First. Distinctions recorded are Sokolov Award, Pulitzer Prize and George Polk Award.

• Name — Ronen Bergman • Native Name — רונן ברגמן • Occupation — Journalist • Education — * University of Haifa (LLB) • Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (MPhil, PhD) • Genre — Investigative journalism • Notable Works — Rise and Kill First (2018) • Awards — Contributed towards the New York Times winning the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2024 • Website — https: ronenbergman.com/

Bergman's parents were both Holocaust survivors. Bergman did his military service in the Israel Defense Forces in the intelligence unit of the Military Police Corps. After his military service, he studied law at the University of Haifa, graduated cum laude, and was admitted to the Israel Bar Association. He later studied at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in the United Kingdom, where he received a Master of Philosophy in international relations and a PhD in history. His PhD thesis was titled "Israel and Africa: military and intelligence liaisons".

Bergman has written in the weekly HaOlam HaZeh, in Shoken network locales and in Haaretz, and since 2000 he has been writing in the "7 Days" supplement of Yedioth Ahronoth, and is a part of the editorial team of the newspaper. Bergman is an expert on intelligence, security, terrorism and the Middle East. He is a lecturer at various forums in Israel and the United States. During his career, he has exposed a number of scandals, including failures at the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute, Nahum Manbar's connections to the Iranian arms industry, Yasser Arafat's secret bank account, the case of the broken smallpox vaccines prepared for the Gulf War, and Teddy Kollek's connections with British intelligence. A topic that Bergman dealt with for many years was the senior Egyptian source who reported the plans for the Yom Kippur War to the head of the Mossad, Zvi Zamir, and was nicknamed "Babylon" by Bergman. Following Bergman's and other journalists' exposure, it became known that the man was Ashraf Marwan. In 2018, Bergman joined The New York Times Magazine as a staff writer after having been a contributing writer to the magazine for several years. He serves as one of The New York Timess correspondents in Tel Aviv and covers the Middle East.