Natan Zahavi

Natan Zahavi was born in 1946 in Tel Aviv

Zahavi was born on October 27, 1946, in Tel Aviv, where he grew up. His parents were Yaakov and Sara Zahavi, and his older brothers are the editor Alex Zahavi and the scientist Avinoam Zahavi. The family changed its name from Goldwitz on coming to Israel.

He attended the Mount Nebo Folk School and completed 8 years of schooling. He started as a photojournalist and football reporter at 15, and at 17 began working for the weekly Ha'Olam Hazeh. In his youth he had several encounters with the law abroad, including a 1966 trial in Chicago and a 1968 arrest in Haifa after meeting Fatah members in Bulgaria, which ended without a trial.

From 1977 to 1982 he lived in Ofira and reported for Galei Tzahal in the south. He then wrote a column for Yedioth Ahronoth and later worked at Hadashot. In 1989 he became editor of the monthly Monitin, and in 1990 he says he coined the slogan "the corrupt are fed up."

Since 1992 he has written a column for Maariv, and he broadcast on 103FM for many years. He published the story collection On the Banks of the Sewer in 1995 and a sequel, Black Hopes, in 2016. He lives in Tel Aviv, is unmarried and has no children.