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'''Yossi Melman''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: יוסי מלמן, born December 27, 1950) is an Israeli writer and journalist. He was an intelligence and strategic affairs correspondent for the ''[[Haaretz]]'' newspaper, and in 2013 he joined ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]'' and its Hebrew sister paper ''[[Maariv]]'' in a similar, more analytical role covering also military issues. In 2019 he returned to ''Haaretz''.<ref>[https://twitter.com/avischarf/status/1202241877073956884 Tweet] by the paper's editor.</ref>
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'''Yossi Melman''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: יוסי מלמן, born December 27, 1950) is an Israeli writer and journalist. He was an intelligence and strategic affairs correspondent for the ''[[Haaretz]]'' newspaper, and in 2013 he joined ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]'' and its Hebrew sister paper ''[[Maariv]]'' in a similar, more analytical role covering also military issues. In 2019 he returned to ''Haaretz''.<ref>[https://twitter.com/avischarf/status/1202241877073956884 Tweet] by the paper's editor.</ref>
 
==Biography==
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In 2020, US President [[Donald Trump]] retweeted Melman's account of the killing of [[Mohsen Fakhrizadeh]], head of the [[nuclear program of Iran]].<ref name="cnn">{{Cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/27/middleeast/iran-top-nuclear-scientist-killed-intl/index.html|title=Iran's top nuclear scientist killed in apparent assassination, state media reports|author= Qiblawi, Tamara, Nick Paton Walsh, Ramin Mostaghim, Mostafa Salem and Ivana Kottasová|website=CNN|access-date= November 27, 2020|archive-date= November 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127190923/https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/27/middleeast/iran-top-nuclear-scientist-killed-intl/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
In 2022 he wrote (together with [[Marc Dugain]]) the script for the French-Hebrew-English film and series Munich: Of Games And Blood (Des Jeux Et Du Sang Munich 1972) directed by Philippe Saada.<ref>[https://www.pernelmedia.com/munich-1972 Munich: Of Games and Blood]</ref>.
 
Melman is married to Billie Rozensweig, a [[Tel Aviv]]-born Israeli historian. They have two children: Yotam and Daria.
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==Published work==
{{external media | width = 210px | alignfloat = right | headerimage= | video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?13424-1/every-spy-prince ''Booknotes'' interview with Melman and Dan Raviv on ''Every Spy a Prince'', August 5, 1990], [[C-SPAN]]}}
*''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
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[[Category:Investigative journalists]]
[[Category:1950 births]]
[[Category:Sokolov Award recipients]]