Nadav Eyal

Nadav Eyal was born in 1979 in England

Eyal was born in England and grew up in Pardes Hanna. His father Rafi was a paratrooper officer in Operation Spring of Youth. As a youth he was a guide in the Scouts.

He graduated in law from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2007 he moved to London on a British Foreign Office scholarship and earned a master's degree in global politics at the London School of Economics.

He joined Channel 10 at its founding in 2002 as a political correspondent, then moved to Maariv in 2003. From 2008 he was Maariv's European correspondent and covered the Mumbai attacks and the Demjanjuk trial. In March 2010 he became Channel 10's foreign news editor, and in 2017 he won the Sokolov Prize.

In November 2020 he left the foreign news desk and became a senior columnist at Yedioth Ahronoth. He published books on globalization and on democracy. In 2024 he began co-hosting a program on Channel 12 and took a teaching post at Columbia University.

He is married to news anchor Tamar Ish-Shalom, and they have 3 children.