Anshel Pfeffer

Anshel Pfeffer has written on Israeli politics and global affairs for over two decades. He is a senior commentator and columnist for Haaretz‘s English edition and The Economist‘s correspondent in Israel, as well as a contributor to The Guardian. As a journalist he has covered wars, revolutions, and political upheaval on four continents. Pfeffer’s first book, Maran: A Biography of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, was published in Hebrew in 2004. Haaretz has recently published an e-book in English of his dispatches from Europe, The Cossacks Aren’t Coming: The Future of Europe’s Jews.