Uri Blau

Uri Blau was born in 1977

Uri Blau was born in 1977. He went to the Hebrew University Secondary School in Jerusalem.

From 2000 to 2002 he was the military reporter of the Jerusalem weekly Kol Ha'ir. He wrote about claims of misconduct by IDF soldiers, mostly during the Second Intifada. He did not join the military reporters' group and relied on junior soldiers rather than senior officers.

In 2005 he joined Haaretz. His reports on Ehud Olmert contributed to Olmert's indictment, and he also investigated Avigdor Liberman, Ehud Barak and Gabi Ashkenazi. In 2008 he published a report, based on classified IDF documents from Anat Kamm, claiming the army had acted against a Supreme Court ruling on targeted killings.

He was convicted of possessing classified IDF documents and sentenced to community service. In 2014 he completed a Nieman fellowship at Harvard University. He was part of the Panama Papers team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2017.

In 2021 he led the Pandora Papers investigations in Israel and joined OCCRP as director of the Global Anti Corruption Consortium. In 2022 he joined the Israeli nonprofit Shomrim as an investigative journalist and director of global projects.