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Charles Enderlin

Charles Enderlin is a French-Israeli journalist who reported on Israel and the Middle East for France 2 and wrote books on the region.

born 1945France 2 reporting from IsraelThe Muhammad al-Durrah reportBooks on the peace process

Born: 2 October 1945, Paris
Occupation: war correspondent, journalist, reporter
Education: lycée Henri-Poincaré, University of Lorraine Faculty of Medicine

Charles Enderlin was born in 1945 in Paris

Enderlin was born in Paris in 1945. He grew up in Metz with his divorced mother, his sister and his grandparents, Austrian Jews who left for France after the Anschluss. He studied medicine in Nancy.

In December 1968 he moved to Israel to live on a kibbutz, and he later became an Israeli citizen. In 1971 he started working for Kol Yisrael radio, and from 1973 he also worked for Radio Monte Carlo.

In 1981 he became a correspondent for the French channel Antenne 2, later named France 2, and he later headed its Israel bureau. He wrote books on Israeli politics and on the talks between Israel and the Palestinians. He received the Legion of Honour in 2009 and retired from the Jerusalem office in 2015.

In September 2000 he narrated a France 2 report saying that the boy Muhammad al-Durrah was killed by fire from Israeli positions. Critics, including Philippe Karsenty, said the scene was staged. France 2 sued Karsenty for libel, and he was convicted of defamation in 2013.