Ehud Yaari

Ehud Yaari or Ehud Ya’ari ( ), born 1945, is a well-known Israeli commentator and expert on Middle Eastern issues, who frequently collaborated with and wrote books with the late Ze'ev Schiff . He has interviewed many recent and past Middle Eastern leaders, including Yasser Arafat , King Hussein of Jordan and his son Abdullah , President Husni Mubarak of Egypt , almost all Israeli prime ministers since Menachem Begin (including Yitzhak Rabin ), Bashar al-Assad , Muammar al-Gaddafi and others. Yaari now works for Israel's Channel 2 . Yaari is an associate editor of The Jerusalem Report , an associate of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and lectures around the world in academic institutions. He is also Senior Fellow at the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies . Yaari has been a Middle East commentator for Israeli television since 1975. Among his numerous awards for journalism are the Israeli Press Editors-in-Chief prize for coverage of the peace process with Egypt, the Sokolov Prize for coverage of the Lebanon War, and the Israel Broadcasting Award for coverage of the Gulf War. Yaari's articles have appeared in respected newspapers and journals such as the New York Times , Wall Street Journal , Washington Post , and Atlantic Monthly .¹