Ronen Bergman

Ronen Bergman (Hebrew: רונן ברגמן) is an Israeli investigative journalist and author. He is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, based in Tel Aviv, and a senior political and military analyst for Yedioth Ahronoth.

He previously wrote for Haaretz.

His work contributed to The New York Times ' 2024 Pulitzer Prize win for its coverage of the Gaza war.

Bergman's parents were both Holocaust survivors.

Bergman did his military service in the Israel Defense Forces in the intelligence unit of the Military Police Corps. After his military service, he studied law at the University of Haifa, graduated cum laude, and was admitted to the Israel Bar Association. He later studied at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in the United Kingdom, where he received a Master of Philosophy in international relations and a PhD in history. His PhD thesis was titled "Israel and Africa: military and intelligence liaisons".

Bergman has written in the weekly HaOlam HaZeh, in Shoken network locales and in Haaretz, and since 2000 he has been writing in the "7 Days" supplement of Yedioth Ahronoth, and is a part of the editorial team of the newspaper.

Bergman is an expert on intelligence, security, terrorism and the Middle East. He is a lecturer at various forums in Israel and the United States. During his career, he has exposed a number of scandals, including failures at the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute, Nahum Manbar's connections to the Iranian arms industry, Yasser Arafat's secret bank account, the case of the broken smallpox vaccines prepared for the Gulf War, and Teddy Kollek's connections with British intelligence.

A topic that Bergman dealt with for many years was the senior Egyptian source who reported the plans for the Yom Kippur War to the head of the Mossad, Zvi Zamir, and was nicknamed "Babylon" by Bergman. Following Bergman's and other journalists' exposure, it became known that the man was Ashraf Marwan.