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    Fathom > Articles by: Matti Friedman

    Matti Friedman

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    Matti Friedman is an author and was an Associated Press (AP) reporter between 2006 and 2011.

    His first book, The Aleppo Codex, won the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and his second, about Israeli infantrymen holding an isolated outpost in Lebanon, will be published next year. He lives in Jerusalem.

    Matti Friedman's articles

    Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai | An interview with Matti Friedman

    By Matti Friedman
    In early March, Fathom's deputy editor Calev Ben-Dor sat down with Matti Friedman to discuss his new book,... Read more > March 2022

    'Telling Israel’s story in the 21st century will have a lot less to do with the Warsaw Ghetto than it...

    By Matti Friedman
    Journalist and author Matti Friedman talks to Fathom Deputy Editor Calev Ben-Dor about his acclaimed recent book, Spies... Read more > February 2019

    Book Review | Winning the War of Words: Essays on Zionism and Israel

    By Matti Friedman
    Einat Wilf's book Winning the War of Words: Essays on Zionism and Israel is available on Amazon or... Read more > Autumn 2015

    The ideological roots of media bias against Israel

    By Matti Friedman
    On 26 January 2015 the former AP reporter Matti Friedman delivered the keynote speech at BICOM’s annual dinner... Read more > Winter 2015

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