Yossi Melman (IL)

Yossi Melman (Hebrew: יוסי מלמן) is an Israeli writer and journalist. He was an intelligence and strategic affairs correspondent for the Haaretz newspaper, and in 2012 he joined the Israeli news portal Walla! in a similar, more analytical role.

Yosef (Yossi) Melman was born in Poland. The family immigrated to Israel in 1957, when he was six years old. He graduated from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. From 1969 he served for three years with "Shaked", a reconnaissance and Special Forces unit in the IDF.

Since 1974, Melman has worked in various capacities in the Israeli media. He has worked for 27 years in the Israeli Haaretz daily as a senior correspondent on national security, intelligence and strategic issues. Melman was involved in several legal and public battles to lift gag orders issued by Israeli courts and censors.

Published work: 

The Master Terrorist: The True Story of Abu-Nidal translated by Shmuel Himelstein. (Adama Books, 1986) ISBN 0-915361-52-3
The Imperfect Spies: The History of Israeli Intelligence. (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1989) ASIN B0007BR81Q
Behind the Uprising : Israelis, Jordanians, and Palestinians written with Dan Raviv. (Greenwood Press, 1989) ISBN 0-313-26787-1
The New Israelis: An Intimate View of a Changing People. (Carol Publishing Corporation, 1992) ISBN 1-55972-129-4
Friends in Deed: Inside the U.S.-Israel Alliance written with Dan Raviv. (Hyperion Books, 1994) ISBN 0-7868-6006-5
Every Spy a Prince: The Complete History of Israel's Intelligence Community written with Dan Raviv. (Houghton Mifflin, 1990) ISBN 0-395-47102-8
Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel's Secret Wars written with Dan Raviv. (Levant Books, 2012) ISBN 978-0985437817
The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran: Mahmoud Ahmadinajed and the State of Iran written with Meir Javedanfar (Caroll&Graf, 2007) ISBN 0-978-07671-8870

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yossi_Melman