Yossi Melman

Yossi Melman is a feature writer and columnist for Haaretz, specializing in strategic issues. He writes about Israel’s intelligence community, nuclear matters, terrorism and other related security issues.
 

He is the author of eight internationally acclaimed books on Israeli intelligence, clandestine diplomacy, terrorism and Iran’s quest for a nuclear bomb including: The Nuclear Sphinx of Teheran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the State of Iran; Spies: Israel's Counter Espionage Wars; Every Spy a Prince: The Complete History of Israel's Intelligence Community, which was a New York Times Bestseller for 14 weeks, and Friends in Deed: Inside the American-Israeli Alliance.

Melman is the recipient of the 2009 Sokolov Aaward - Israel’s most prestigious and highest decoration for journalists. In 2004 survey among Haaretz readers Melman was selected as the “Most Outstanding and Interesting Writer.

In 1994 he received in the "Simon Rockower Award for Excellence in Jewish Journalism" and in 1995 was granted the Boris Smolar Award of Excellence in International News or Feature Reporting”, on behalf of the American Jewish Press Association.
 

He is the only Israeli journalist who is a member of the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).
 

In 2003, together with several other members of ICIJ investigative team, Melman received a special award for their coverage of Making a Killing: The Business of War, a project of 11 features on worldwide arms dealers and oil and diamond merchants in Third World countries.

As a former panelist with the Washington Post’s GlobalPost, Melman is also a frequent lecturer on these topics on behalf of the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations, the United Nations, and The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, as well as before many Jewish and non-Jewish groups and civic forums and economic organizations in North America and Europe.

Melman is an avid runner and triathlete, and has since 1994 completed 23 marathons and four ultra-marathons, and entered four ironman and 11 half ironman competitions.