Joel C. Rosenberg

Joel C. Rosenberg was born in 1967 in Rochester

Rosenberg was born in April 1967 near Rochester, New York. His father is of Jewish descent and his mother came from a Methodist family of English descent. His parents became born-again Christians in 1973, and he identifies as a Messianic Jew.

He graduated from Syracuse University in 1988. He then worked as a research assistant for Rush Limbaugh and later advised the presidential campaign of Steve Forbes. He ran a political consulting business until 2000 and says he advised Natan Sharansky and Benjamin Netanyahu.

After Netanyahu's loss in 1999, he left politics to write. His first novel, The Last Jihad, came out in 2002 and opened a 5-part series that ended with Dead Heat in 2008. He also wrote nonfiction books, including Epicenter in 2006 and Inside the Revolution in 2009.

In 2006 he founded The Joshua Fund, a Christian Zionist charity that supports ministries and relief projects in Israel and nearby countries. In 2020 he set up the news websites All Israel News and All Arab News. He and his wife Lynn have 4 sons and live in Israel.