Herb Keinon
Diplomatic Correspondent for the Jerusalem Post
Herb Keinon has been at the Jerusalem Post for the last 20 years. During this time he has covered a wide variety of different beats, including Jerusalem, immigration and absorption, religious parties, haredim, and the settlements. He has also been a features writer and weekly columnist at the paper.
Mr. Keinon took over the diplomatic beat in August 2000, just after the failed Camp David summit, and just before the start of the current violence.
Mr. Keinon is responsible for covering the prime minister and the foreign minister, and often travels with the Prime Minister on his trips abroad. As such, Mr. Keinon has up-close knowledge and an intimate perspective of the current confrontation and the various diplomatic attempts at solving it.
In addition, Mr. Keinon appears frequently on a variety of radio and television programs in the US, Canada, and Europe as a guest commentator on the situation in Israel. He has also lectured widely both in Israel and the US on the subject.
Mr. Keinon, originally from Denver, has a BA in political science from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and an MA in journalism from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
He has lived in Israel for 25 years, is married with four children, and lives in Ma’ale Adumim, just outside of Jerusalem.
Fee (Explanation): $
Availability: Herb lives in Israel and frequently comes to the US for speaking engagements.
Contact JNF Speakers Bureau for availability.
Topics:
- The Current War: How terror has changed Israel, its politics, the Zionist dream and the country’s path to peace.
- From the Six Day to the Six Year War: Ariel Sharon, Ehud Olmert and Israel’s move toward setting a border.
- Israel and the press: Why it is so difficult for Israel to get a fair shake in the media.
- The view from Jerusalem: How perceptions of the world shape Israeli policy.
- Israel as a life option: The pros and cons of life in the eye of the Jewish storm.
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