Background
Ehud Ya"ari was born in 1945 during the Mandate era.
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Ehud Yaari
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Career
He holds a Bachelor in Middle Eastern Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an Master of Arts in Middle Eastern Studies from Tel Aviv University. In 1968, he was an assistant to Shlomo Gazit, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories. From 1969 to 1975, he was the Arab affairs correspondent for the newspaper Davar and Israel Army Radio.
From 1975 to 2000, he was a commentator on Middle Eastern affairs on Channel 1.
In 1987, he became a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and in 1990, he became a columnist for The Jerusalem Post. He became a commentator on Arab affairs on Channel 2 (Israel)|Channel 2 in 2000.
In 2008, he joined the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies of the Shalem Center. Yaari has reported from Egypt and Lebanon, and in 1997, reported from Washington.
He interviewed many Arab statesmen and leaders, and also conducted an interview with United States President Bill Clinton.
In 1985 Hava and friend Aviva Granot embezzled funds from an American tourist and Holocaust survivor and later murdered her by striking her over the head with a rolling pin and running her over with a car. Divorced by Ehud after being convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in a sensational trial, her sentence was later reduced and she was released from prison in 2000. Yehuda Yaari is a journalist and lecturer at Ariel University.
In 2005, he was investigated for harassing Israeli news anchor Miki Haimovich.
The case was dropped after he was deemed unfit to stand trial. Ehud later married Dagmar Strauss, who now goes by the name of Dagmar Strauss Yaari.
Ehud Ya"ari is an expert on Middle Eastern affairs He is the author of eight books on the Arab-Israeli conflict, some in collaboration with Ze"ev Schiff.
Today, Ya"ari is a political commentator for Israel"s Channel 2 news.
Yaari is an associate editor of The Jerusalem Report and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He is also Senior Fellow at the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies. Ya"ari has published articles in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Atlantic Monthly.
