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Amit Segal

Amit Segal (Hebrew: עמית סגל; born April 10, 1982) is an Israeli journalist, radio and television personality. He serves as the political commentator of Israel's Channel 12 news (N12 News company) and a political columnist for the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper. He is regarded as one of the most influential journalists in Israel. Nowadays he serves as an anchor of the Israeli Meet the Press alongside Ben Caspit.

Segal was born in Haifa and raised in the Israeli settlement Ofra; he is the son of Hagai Segal, an Israeli journalist and convicted terrorist who was part of the Jewish Underground.

Segal is a graduate of the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and holds a master's degree from University College London (UCL) in public policy. He is a doctoral student in political science at the Hebrew University.

Segal began his journalistic career at the age of 17 as an education reporter at the Kol Ha'ir local newspaper. In 2000, he was accepted into the Israeli Defense Forces Army Radio. At the beginning of his career at the Army Radio, he served as a media reporter and later as a reporter in the Knesset.

In 2006, he moved to the corresponding position at Hevrat HaHadashot in Channel 2, and presented the program Couple or Individual on the Knesset Channel, initially together with Nadav Perry and later together with Barak Ravid and other presenters, until 2016.

In the years 2009–2010 he served as the foreign correspondent of Hevrat HaHadashot in London, after which he returned to the position of Knesset correspondent.

In May 2013 he was appointed the political commentator of the Hevrat HaHadashot in place of veteran political reporter Rina Mazliah.

Between the years 2011–2018, Segal wrote a weekly column on politics in the Makor Rishon newspaper. As of 2018, he is a columnist in "Mosef Shabbat" of Yediot Ahronoth.

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