Background
Shimron was born in Tel Aviv in 1950.
commentator journalist military author
Shimron was born in Tel Aviv in 1950.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Shimron is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in History and the study of Southeast Asia. During the 1990s, Shimron served as the European correspondent for the Israeli daily newspaper Ma"ariv, worked as a journalist in the news department of Israel"s public domestic and international radio service Kol Yisrael and presented the morning show in the Israeli Channel 1. Shimron continued to work for Ma"ariv until he was fired from the newspaper in 2008.
In addition, Shimron has published seven fiction and non-fiction books on intelligence, security and the history of the Crusaders, in Hebrew, English, French and German.
During the 1970s and 1980s, Shimron was a member of various operative units of the Mossad for ten years.