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Investigative Journalist
Investigative Journalist
Ronen Bergman is one of Israel's leading investigative journalists. The senior security and intelligence correspondent and analyst for Israel's largest daily newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, and an anchor on a leading Israeli television news program, he is the author of three bestselling books published in Israel. He was awarded a PhD by Cambridge University for his dissertation about the Israeli Mossad.
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Ronen Bergman on the booming high-tech economy.
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When trying to make foreign policy read like a thriller, Bergman says jogging offers the best way to clear his head.
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While Americans may think of Mossad as the world’s most elite fighting force, Bergman reminds us that, “These people work 9 to 5.”
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Overcoming censorship required Bergman to compromise, take court action and sometimes give up.
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Despite its checkered past (and present), Secretary of State Rice has rekindled American relations with Libya.
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His denials were false: the details of the scandal were contained in “The Hungarian Octagon,” a secret file that Bush Sr. received before taking office.
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Israel has a freer media than its neighbors, and 80% of citizens read the newspaper, yet Bergman says that true freedom of the press is not yet a government priority.
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Americans are less likely to support military intervention; Israelis wonder how this affects relations with Iran.
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The U.S. sees Israel as its eyes and ears in the region. Israel understands American politics only as, “What is good for us?”
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If he were alive today, the instigator of the revolution might not recognize the Islamic Republic.
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The Mossad jokes that Ahmedinajad is the best mole they have ever had.
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Ronen Bergman on the status of Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
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Israel may be strong, but a unilateral attack on Iran would be the “worst case scenario,” says Bergman.
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Any country that calls for the destruction of Israel will not be permitted to gain control of a nuclear weapon.
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Ronen Bergman on Israel’s clandestine war with Iran.
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It is not about economics, says Bergman, it is about the right of return.
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Journalist Ronen Bergman on the acting Israeli prime minister.