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Professional Affiliation

Journalist and Author

Expert Bio

Matti Friedman is an award-winning journalist and author. Born in Toronto and based in Jerusalem, he鈥檚 currently a contributor to the New York Times Op-Ed Section. 

Friedman鈥檚 last book, Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel, won the 2019 Natan Prize and the Canadian Jewish Book Award for history. Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier鈥檚 Story of a Forgotten War was chosen in 2016 as a NY Times鈥� Notable Book and one of Amazon鈥檚 10 best books of the year. His first book, The Aleppo Codex, won the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize and the ALA鈥檚 Sophie Brody Medal.  

His most recent essay, 鈥淚srael鈥檚 Russian Wave, Thirty Years Later,鈥� appeared in Mosaic Magazine.