Education
Harvard University.
Harvard University.
He is a national correspondent for Columbia Broadcasting System News, heard regularly on the Columbia Broadcasting System Radio Network. He has also done television reports from Washington, District of Columbia on the Columbia Broadcasting System Evening News. Raviv is host of a weekly radio magazine show, the Columbia Broadcasting System News Weekend Roundup.
A New York native and graduate of Harvard, Raviv joined Columbia Broadcasting System at its all-news radio station in Boston (WEEI) in 1974, moving to WCBS Newsradio in New York in 1976, then to the network radio newsdesk in New New York
The start of his on-air career was his assignment in the Tel Aviv bureau, from 1978 to 1980, followed by twelve years as radio correspondent in the London bureau. There, he began making occasional appearances on Columbia Broadcasting System television He worked in the Miami bureau from 1993 to 1997, and then was named National Correspondent in the radio unit at Columbia Broadcasting System News in Washington.
He is also the author of several books, including the 1990 best seller Every Spy a Prince: The Complete History of Israel"s Intelligence Community, a newer history of Israeli espionage and security, Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel"s Secret Wars (2012), and Friends In Deed: Inside the United States.-Israel Alliance (1994), all three co-authored with journalist Yossi Melman. Raviv is the sole author of Comic Wars: How Two Tycoons Battled Over the Marvel Comics Empire — and Both Lost.
Three of his books are available as e-books
He and Melman have a blog, IsraelSpy.com
Raviv is married, with two adult children.