Aluf Benn

Aluf Benn was born in 1965 in Ramat HaSharon

Aluf Benn was born Aluf Bomstein in Ramat HaSharon in 1965. His parents are Atida and the poet Aryeh Sivan, who won the Israel Prize in 2010. He was named for his mother's younger brother, Aluf Horowitz, who was killed in a 1955 retaliation operation in Gaza.

He studied at Tel Aviv University and earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He served in the IDF Military Police Corps.

In 1986 he joined the local paper Ha'ir and changed his surname to Benn. A report of his on the Mossad leadership, blocked by the censor, led to a High Court petition against the chief military censor. In 1989 he moved to Haaretz, where he worked as night editor, investigative reporter, head of the news division and diplomatic correspondent.

As diplomatic correspondent he covered 6 prime ministers, peace talks, the Second Intifada, the Gaza disengagement and the Second Lebanon War. In 2008 he received the Schiff fellowship at the Institute for National Security Studies. On August 1, 2011 he became editor-in-chief of Haaretz, and from September 1, 2017 he also edits TheMarker.