Haim Watzman

Haim Watzman was born in 1956 in Cleveland

Haim Watzman was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1956. He grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland. He earned a B.A. from Duke University.

He moved to Israel and has lived there since 1978, working as a freelance translator and journalist. He served in a reserve infantry unit of the IDF, which became the subject of a memoir.

He translated into English books by Hebrew authors, including Tom Segev, David Grossman and Yuval Noah Harari. He was Israel correspondent for The Chronicle of Higher Education for 25 years and also for the journal Nature. His opinion pieces appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and The Forward.

He wrote the books Company C, A Crack in the Earth and Necessary Stories. He writes a monthly column for The Jerusalem Report and co-writes the South Jerusalem blog with Gershom Gorenberg. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife, Ilana, and four children.