Haggai Hoberman

Haggai Hoberman was born in 1959

Haggai Hoberman was born in Haifa in 1959 and grew up there. His mother was the daughter of Rabbi Gershon Cohen, rabbi of the Nahalat Shimon neighborhood in Jerusalem. He was a member of the Bnei Akiva youth movement and graduated from the Yavne high school in Haifa.

He served in a Nahal group in Kfar Etzion and stayed to live there after his service. He was among the founders of Netzarim in Gush Katif and sat on the Hof Aza Regional Council in 1986 and 1987. After marrying, he lived for some years in Bnei Darom.

He started in journalism at Zra'im, a Bnei Akiva paper, and later worked at HaTzofe as night editor and settlement affairs correspondent. When HaTzofe merged with Makor Rishon, he became its military correspondent. From 2009 he edited the religious weekly Matzav HaRuach, and he was a military correspondent for HaMevaser, BaKehila and Yom LeYom.

He was dismissed from HaMevaser in 2010 after criticizing Knesset member Yaakov Litzman, and was suspended for a time in 2013 over a post about Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. He wrote books on Gush Katif and settlement in Yesha. He is married with 5 children and lives in Elkana.