Shmuel Rosner

Shmuel Rosner is Haaretz's chief U.S. correspondent, and is based in Washington. He, his wife and their three children live in Maryland.

A long-time American history buff, in the last decade Rosner has written numerous pieces about U.S. policy and politics, and traveled across the United States covering the 2000 and 2004 elections for Haaretz.

He has been a frequent guest on Israeli television and radio as an analyst of American policy, and has lectured at Tel Aviv University and other institutions on Israeli journalism and politics. In the United States, he has spoken at Boston University's school of journalism and at the American University in Washington.

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What Today’s Election Means

If Israel has voted for change today it is not for change of the political…

Avigdor Lieberman’s Rise (And What It Means for Disapora Jewry)

The rise of the Israel Beiteinu (Israel is Our Home) Party in this Israeli election…

What Change?

Although it’s generally agreed that Obama’s inauguration speech was “not much”’ as Commentary’s editor John…

The Two-Sided Argument Over Gaza

Israelis have become so accustomed to the idiotic reaction by world leaders whenever Israel goes…

Israeli Journalism Students Think Americans Jews Are Boring

Teaching this semester in the battle-tested Sapir College, near the town of Sderot, I had…

Israel Is Not a Monopoly of Rabbis

This was not a slip of the tongue. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, speaking at the…

Block That Obama Cliche

Here’s the list of clichés to be avoided in the coming months (and, if possible,…

How Israeli Officials View Obama And McCain

[Note: This post is part of an ongoing dialogue between Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic…