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Ben Hartman (512) 662-9333 | benlhartman@ | Citizenship: American, Israeli | English mother tongue, fluent in Hebrew ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ?????SUMMARYI am a journalist and writer with a decade of experience in breaking news and feature writing, editing, and television producing. I have worked on 24/7 breaking news sites, a daily national newspaper, and have produced video packages for a number of international news networks such as CNN, France 24, Television Suisse Romande and Arte and have been a frequent on air-guest on BBC Radio, CNN, BBC, and Al Jazeera English among others. My freelance feature writing has appeared in a series of publications including , , and High Times. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE2013 - 2015 TLV1.FM RadioTel Aviv, Israel Hosted a weekly crime reporting podcast at an English language internet radio station, where the show was the first program launched. I found my guests and wrote scripts for every show. – 2016 ??The Jerusalem Post??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ?? ?Israel/PalestineReporterWrote breaking news and long-form feature articles for a national daily newspaper, covered a variety of issues from crime and police, to African migrants, minority issues, and popular protests; helped produce video reports and wrote a blog on crime reporting and police issues for the website, as well as a bi-monthly column for the newspaper’s weekend magazine. - 2009??? Haaretz??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ?????Tel Aviv, IsraelSenior staff editor and writerTranslated and edited articles from the Hebrew edition into English; wrote articles on current events for the website including feature articles and a political satire blog for the 2008 US elections; wrote, produced, and performed voiceovers for video news items on a weekly basis. – 2007??? ??? Tel Aviv University??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ????? Tel Aviv, Israel??? ??? ??? MA (Hons) Security Studies 1998 – 2002??? ??? University of Texas, Austin??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??????Austin, Texas??? ??? ??? BA (Hons) History, with a minor in Government 1993-1997 McCallum High School Austin, TexasWriting Samples: Jerusalem Post: HYPERLINK "" Knife bait at the park – watching my daughter’s blind spot A tragic-comic look at my first shift on “guard duty” at my daughter’s day care. After Palestinian stabbing attacks became a daily occurrence late last year, one father at my daughter’s day care in posh north Tel Aviv hatched a plan for the dads to take turns guarding the kids during their daily excursion to the park, with mixed results. They came to watch the bridge explode “Never have so many gathered to see so few blow up so little”. Last summer, hundreds of Israelis gathered in a nightclub district of Tel Aviv to watch the implosion of the famous “Maariv Bridge” – which was never really a bridge at all. A comic look at an event that was never too serious to begin with.Frontline Reporting: My coverage of the 2016 Eurovision finals This is a not so-serious review of the Eurovision finals that originally ran in the Jerusalem Post.“Horrendous Israeli 70s film becomes cult favorite The filmmaker who made “An American Hippie in Israel” left the country – and filmmaking – after making this disaster, which in recent years gained a cult following at midnight screenings in Tel Aviv. The curious case of Gill Rosenberg“How an Israeli-Canadian woman and former con artist went from house arrest with a Hassidic rabbi in New York to joining the fight against Islamic State in Kurdistan.” 4,500 word article that involved interviews with people in four countries, as well as extensive use of court documents, including indictments, and protocols of court hearings. “High Spies of the Mossad” – High Times Magazine, May 2014 (print only)A longform article about “Israel’s medical marijuana mystery man” Alex Barak, a former organized crime associate – possibly even a spy too – who became a major medical marijuana advocate after he was critically wounded in a mob shooting and became confined to a wheelchair. This was years after he was arrested with his best friend – one of Israel’s most notorious mobsters – while trying to sneak a drugged Nigerian diplomat out of the UK in a foot locker and not long after he published his autobiography “The Man Who Died Twice”. Long, personal Blog posts:My Gaza War A long look back at the 2014 Gaza War and how it affected my life and that of the country. My father in the MarinesA look at my father’s time as a young man in the Marine Corps, taken from 21 letters he wrote home from boot camp, which I compiled after his death. The Popo conference call has problemsThis piece is a humorous look at the good intentions of the police spokesperson’s office and their relations with Israeli crime reporters.The Funerals BeatA blog post on covering funerals and mourning in a country where tragedy is always right around the corner. ................
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