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Calev Ben David

Calev Ben David is an American-Israeli journalist and television presenter who hosts the current affairs program The Rundown on i24NEWS.

born 1960Hosting The Rundown on i24NEWSSenior editor at The Jerusalem PostHeading Bloomberg's Israel bureau

Born: 7 February 1960, Brooklyn
Occupation: journalist

Calev Ben David was born in 1960 in Brooklyn

Calev Ben David was born in Brooklyn in 1960. He grew up in North Woodmere, New York. He moved to Israel in 1985 and served in the Artillery Corps.

From 1988 to 1990 he reported on police affairs in the Jerusalem district and on film and art for The Jerusalem Post. He then edited the arts section of The Jerusalem Report from 1991 to 1996. In 1997 he returned to The Jerusalem Post as a magazine editor and opinion writer, and he was a senior editor there from 2002 to 2005.

In 2005 he joined The Israel Project to set up its Jerusalem office and ran it until 2007. In 2008 he became head of the Israel bureau of Bloomberg, and later worked as its diplomatic correspondent until 2016. He joined i24NEWS as a news anchor in 2016 and has hosted its evening program The Rundown since 2017.

He edited and co-wrote a biography of Yitzhak Rabin published in 1996, which won a US National Jewish Book Award. He has taught journalism at Reichman University. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife Eva and their 2 children.