Walter Bingham

Walter Bingham was born in 1924 in Weimar Republic

Bingham was born Wolfgang Billig in Karlsruhe, Germany, on 5 January 1924, to an observant Jewish family with Polish citizenship. He studied at a Jewish school in Mannheim and belonged to a religious Zionist youth movement. His father was arrested in the expulsion of Polish Jews, and Bingham witnessed Kristallnacht.

In 1939 he reached Britain on a Kindertransport. He joined the British Army and served as an ambulance driver in the Normandy landings. He later analyzed captured German documents and questioned Joachim von Ribbentrop.

After his discharge in 1947 he studied political philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London. He married a refugee from Vienna and stayed in Britain, where he worked as a journalist and broadcaster. He also acted, including as a wizard in two Harry Potter films.

Bingham moved to Israel in 2004 and began hosting a weekly radio program on Israel National News. He lives in the Rehavia neighborhood of Jerusalem. His wife died in 1990.