Danny Rubinstein

Danny Rubinstein was born in 1937 in Jerusalem

Rubinstein was born in Jerusalem on December 23, 1937. He grew up in Neveh Bezalel, a small neighborhood near Nahlaot. He studied Middle Eastern studies and sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

In the 1967 Six-Day War he served as a reservist in a Jerusalem reconnaissance unit led by Yossi Langotsky. The unit was the first to cross the cease-fire line into the West Bank, then held by Jordan.

From 1967 to 1990 he worked for Davar as its Jerusalem correspondent. From 1990 to 2008 he was the Arab affairs analyst at Haaretz and a member of its editorial board. Since 2008 he has written a weekly column on the Palestinian economy for Calcalist.

In 2007 he called Israel an apartheid state at a UN-sponsored conference, and the Zionist Federation of Great Britain canceled his appearance at its event. He teaches Middle East history at Ben-Gurion University and has published several books. In 2019 he won the Yitzhak Sadeh Prize for military literature.

He is a board member of B'Tselem and lives in Jerusalem's Beit Hakerem neighborhood.