Gershom Gorenberg

Gershom Gorenberg was born in 2000 in St. Louis

Gorenberg was born in St. Louis and grew up in California. In 1977 he went to Israel to study and later chose to settle there. He holds both American and Israeli citizenship.

He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1976. He studied religious texts at the Pardes Institute and Yeshivat HaMivtar from 1977 to 1980. In 1985 he received a master's degree in education from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He worked as an editor and reporter at The Jerusalem Post from 1983 to 1990, then at The Jerusalem Report from 1990 to 2006. Since 2007 he has been a senior correspondent for The American Prospect. His books include The End of Days (2000), The Accidental Empire (2006) on the early settlements, and The Unmaking of Israel (2011).

In 2003 the IDF and defense establishment archive refused his request to view documents for a book on the settlements, and he petitioned the High Court of Justice. In 2010 the court dismissed the petition after finding that much of what was requested had been granted. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife, journalist Myra Noveck, and their 3 children.