Aaron Klein

Background

He was born in 1960.

Education

Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Career

He has served since 1995 as Time magazine's military and intelligence affairs correspondent in the Jerusalem Bureau. The recipient of 2002 Henry Luce Award, Klein, an Master of Arts in history from Hebrew University, has taught journalism at the college and university level in Israel. Among the exclusive information Klein presented was the successful Mossad plot to kill leading Palestinian militant Wadie Haddad in 1978 by poisoning him via a manipulated box of Belgian chocolates.

In 2014, Klein's book Master of Operations — a biography of Mossad agent Mike Harari — was published in Israel.

Achievements

• His book Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response (2005) was translated into a dozen languages and published in more than twenty countries.