Nir Hasson

Nir Hasson was born in 1975 in Jerusalem

Nir Hasson was born in Jerusalem on September 15, 1975. He attended the Hebrew Gymnasium Rehavia. He is married to literature scholar Maayan Harel and has 3 children.

He earned a bachelor's degree in international relations and a master's degree in geography at the Hebrew University. He later did research at the university's Truman Institute. In February 2026 he received a doctorate for a study of the built landscape of East Jerusalem from 1967 to 2020.

He began in 2001 at the Jerusalem paper Kol Ha'ir and joined Haaretz in 2004 as its southern correspondent, covering the Gaza disengagement. Since 2009 he has covered Jerusalem and archaeology, and since 2019 also climate and environment. In 2017 he published the book Urshalim about Israelis and Palestinians in Jerusalem.

In 2019 he reported that police had planted a rifle in a home in Issawiya for the TV series Jerusalem District, and the series was pulled. After October 7, 2023 he covered Kibbutz Nir Oz, and from 2024 he reported on humanitarian conditions in Gaza. He received the Sokolov Award in 2025.