Israel Matters Presents Israeli Columnist, Amir Tibon

26 Feb @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Temple Beth Ami is honored to welcome once again Israeli journalist Amir Tibon on Sunday, February 26th at 2pm via Zoom. This event is co-sponsored by Encore.

Mr. Tibon is a distinguished Israeli journalist who is the assignments editor and U.S. news editor for the Haaretz newspaper, and host of the Haaretz Weekly Podcast. From 2017-2020 he was the Washington, D.C., correspondent for Haaretz, covering the Trump administration, Congress and the U.S. Jewish community. During this period he also covered the far-right march in Charlottesville, Virginia; the antisemitic attack on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh; and the 2020 presidential election. During the years 2013-2016, Amir was the diplomatic correspondent for Walla News, a leading Israeli news website. Prior to that, he was a producer for Uvda, the leading investigative news program on Israeli television. Amir is the co-author of The Last Palestinian, a biography of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, published in July 2017. In 2015, he was nominated for a National Magazine Award (in the reporting category) for an article on the latest round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. For the same article, he also received an award from the National Press Club, for excellence in diplomatic reporting. Amir’s writing on Israel and the Middle East has appeared in The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Politico Magazine, The New Yorker, Tablet Magazine, The New Republic, The Huffington Post, The American Interest and The Jerusalem Report. He has been interviewed on CNN, Al-Jazeera, CBS and MSNBC.

Amir lives in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, the closest place in Israel to Gaza, with his wife and two daughters. He is regularly invited to speak on Israeli politics and the U.S.-Israel relationship, as well as on the subject of life on the Gaza border, in front of various audiences in the United States.