Ehud Yaari

Ehud Yaari was born in 1945 in Israel

Ehud Yaari was born in 1945 in Metula. His father, Yitzhak Yaari, was a journalist at Davar, and his mother, Shulamit, was a teacher. His brother Yehuda Yaari is also a journalist.

He went to Tichon Hadash high school in Tel Aviv. He earned a BA in Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an MA in the same field at Tel Aviv University.

In 1968 he was an assistant to Shlomo Gazit, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories. From 1969 to 1975 he covered Arab affairs for Davar and Army Radio. From 1975 he was a Middle East commentator on Israeli public television, and in 1997 he reported for it from Washington.

In 2000 he became the Arab affairs commentator of Channel 2 news. He has interviewed Arab leaders such as Yasser Arafat and Hosni Mubarak, and also Bill Clinton. He wrote 8 books on the Arab-Israeli conflict, some with Ze'ev Schiff.

In 2008 he joined the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Shalem Center as a senior fellow. He divorced his first wife, Hava, after she was convicted of murder, and later married Dagmar Strauss. He lives in Alfei Menashe.