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Nadav Shragai

Nadav Shragai is an Israeli journalist and author who has written about Jerusalem and the religious and national conflict over it.

born 1959Reporting for HaaretzBooks on the Temple MountResearch on Jerusalem

Occupation: journalist, opinion journalist
Education: Himmelfarb High School

Nadav Shragai was born in 1959 in Jerusalem

Nadav Shragai was born in Jerusalem in 1959 to Nechama Sara and Ovadia. His grandfather, Shlomo Zalman Shragai, was mayor of Jerusalem. As a young child he sang in the Pirchei London children's choir, and he went to Himelfarb High School.

He started his career at the newspaper Hatzofe and then at the Jerusalem weekly Kol Ha'ir. In 1983 he began writing for Haaretz, where he covered police, religion, religious courts and the Jewish people. He also wrote many opinion pieces with a Jewish national line and reported on settlers and religious communities.

In 2009 he left Haaretz and later joined Israel Hayom. Since 2008 he has been a senior researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, and he lectures on Jerusalem. His books include a 1995 work on the struggle over the Temple Mount and a 2005 book on Rachel's Tomb.

He lives in Jerusalem. He is married to Bat-Zion and has 5 children.