David Landau

David Landau was born in 1947 in United Kingdom

Landau was born in the United Kingdom in 1947 and grew up in Golders Green, London. In the early 1960s he studied at the Slabodka yeshiva in Bnei Brak, and during the Six-Day War he was a student at the Hebron Yeshiva in Jerusalem.

He earned a law degree at University College London. In 1970 he settled permanently in Jerusalem.

He began at The Jerusalem Post as a volunteer in 1967 and later became its diplomatic correspondent and managing editor. He was the first Israeli journalist to interview Egyptian president Anwar Sadat. In 1990 he left the paper with other journalists, after its new owner changed its political line.

His book on the Haredi world appeared in 1993, and he worked with Shimon Peres on his memoirs. In 1997 he founded the English edition of Haaretz, and in 2004 he replaced Hanoch Marmari as editor-in-chief. In 2007 remarks he made to Condoleezza Rice caused controversy.

After leaving the editorship in 2008 he became Israel correspondent for The Economist. In 2014 he published a biography of Ariel Sharon and was appointed OBE. He was married to Jackie, had 3 children, and died in Israel in 2015.