Robert Rosenberg

Robert Rosenberg was born in 1951 in Boston

Robert Rosenberg was born in Boston in 1951. He studied at Tufts and Harvard universities.

He came to Israel as a volunteer right after the Yom Kippur War and stayed for a short time at Kibbutz Beit Alfa. He then moved to Tel Aviv, where he finished his studies at Tel Aviv University. He started at the UPI news service as an unpaid telex operator and was later made a reporter.

For many years he worked at The Jerusalem Post and also wrote for American outlets such as Time. In his last 10 years he was a senior editor at Haaretz in English. He wrote 4 crime novels about detective Avraham Cohen, a Holocaust survivor, based on his years as a police reporter, and co-wrote Secret Soldier with Muki Betzer.

In 1995 he began building the online magazine Ariga, which joined poetry from around the world with a site committed to peace in the Middle East. He was married to painter Silvia Rosenberg. He died of cancer in Tel Aviv in 2006.