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Nahum Barnea
נחום ברנע |
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| Born | 23 October 1944 |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem London School of Economics |
| Occupation | Journalism |
Nahum Barnea (Hebrew: נחום ברנע) (born October 23, 1944) is an Israeli journalist. Barnea writes for Yedioth Ahronoth. He won the Israel Prize in 2007.
Biography
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Nahum Borstein (later Barnea) was born in Petah Tikva. He served in the IDF in Nahal Mutznah. He earned a B.A. in history and political science from Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Barnea is married to Tami, writer Rina Ben-Menahem's sister and they have three children. His son Yonatan was killed in February 1996 by Hamas in a terrorist attack on Bus 18 in Jerusalem.
Journalism career
Barnea began his journalism career at university, writing for the student newspaper Pi-Ha'aton. In 1967–1982, he worked for the newspaper Davar, becoming the paper's correspondent in Washington, D.C. Later he founded and edited a weekly paper Koteret Rashit. Since 1989, Barnea has been a staff writer for Yedioth Ahronoth. He wrote for Ha'Ayin HaShevi'it from 1996 to 2008.
Awards and recognitions
Barnea was awarded the Sokolov Prize for journalism in 1981. In a survey in 1998, he was voted one of the most influential journalists in Israel. In 2007, he won the Israel Prize in the sphere of communications. The judges who awarded the prize said: "Nahum Barnea is a journalist who almost every young writer aspires to emulate." They added, "Barnea always insists on 'being there,' close to events, even in places of social tension, even in wars and on days of terror attacks, even when his presence places his life in danger." On 29 March 2007, he accepted an award from the president of Tel Aviv University for "his achievements and his unique contribution to the profession of journalism in Israel.
Published works
Barnea has published two collections of his articles, יורים ובוכים ("They shoot and cry") and ימי נתניהו ("Days of Netanyahu"). In 2006, he published Backchannel: Bush, Sharon and the Uses of Unilateralism.
- Yorim u-bokhim, a collection of articles he wrote for Davar, published in 1981.
- Yemay netanyahu,'a collection of articles he wrote for Yedioth Ahronoth and Ha'Ayin HaShevi'it, published in 1999.
See also
- List of Israel Prize recipients
- Journalism in Israel
