Ahron Bregman

Ahron Bregman was born in 1958 in Israel

Bregman was born in Israel in 1958 and grew up there.

He served in the Israel Defense Forces as an artillery officer and fought in the 1978 Litani campaign and the 1982 Lebanon War. After the war he left the army.

He studied international relations and political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and worked as a parliamentary assistant in the Knesset. In 1988 he told Haaretz he would refuse reserve duty in the occupied territories, and he then moved to England. He joined the Department of War Studies at King's College London and completed his PhD in 1994.

He has written books on the Arab-Israeli conflict and has written obituaries for The Daily Telegraph since 1994. He was an associate producer and consultant on two BBC series about Israel and the Arabs. He teaches at the Department of War Studies and lives in London with his 3 children.

In 2002 he claimed that Ashraf Marwan, son-in-law of Gamal Abdel Nasser, was a Mossad agent. Marwan died in London on 27 June 2007, the day they were due to meet. Bregman's 2016 book about him became a Netflix documentary in 2019.