Ben Caspit

Ben Caspit was born in 1960 in Tel Aviv

Ben Caspit was born in 1960. His father, Yitzhak Caspit, was born in Tiberias and was a member of the Likud Central Committee. His mother, Rachel, came from a family of Bulgarian origin.

He served in the Armored Corps from 1979 to 1982 as a Merkava tank commander in the 7th Brigade. He then earned a bachelor's degree in law from Tel Aviv University and worked as a private investigator in economic and insurance cases.

He joined Maariv in 1985 as a sports reporter. He later covered municipal and police affairs, served 4 years as the paper's New York correspondent, and became its political reporter. He was dismissed in November 2012 after the paper was sold, joined the new weekly SofHaShavua, and returned to the merged Maariv in May 2014.

Since 2012 he has hosted a daily program on 103fm and written for Al-Monitor. He also presents Meet the Press on Channel 12 with Amit Segal. He is a critic of Benjamin Netanyahu and has written books about him and about Ehud Barak.

In January 2020, Globes reported that he had passed information to the police in cases linked to Netanyahu. In 2024 he received an award from the Movement for Quality Government. He lives in Hod HaSharon and has 3 children.