NERI ZILBER

 

 

Neri Zilber is a journalist and analyst covering Middle East politics. He is currently a correspondent for the Financial Times, and also serves as an advisor to Israel Policy Forum, where he hosts the Israel Policy Pod.

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Neri is a regular contributor to Foreign Policy, The Christian Science Monitor and The Daily Beast, and his work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, The ​Atlantic, New Republic, Guardian, Foreign Affairs, Vox and New Lines Magazine, among other outlets.

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He is the co-author of State with No Army, Army with No State: Evolution of the Palestinian Authority Security Forces 1994-2018, and the contributing author on Israel's social protest demonstrations for The Occupy Handbook​ (Little, Brown), a chronicle of the global "Occupy" movement. More recently, he authored an essay about Tel Aviv for the Jewish Priorities anthology (Wicked Son).

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Neri has held fellowships at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (Adjunct Fellow 2015-2024, Visiting Scholar 2014-2015), BICOM (Senior Fellow & Director of Research 2019-2020), the Heinrich Boell Stiftung (Transatlantic Media Fellow 2019), the Institute of Current World Affairs (2011-2013), and the U.S. Library of Congress (2005-2006). In addition to reportage and analysis, Neri has consulted for the private sector on political and economic risk.

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He has been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Financial Times, and has appeared on CNN, BBC, NPR, CBS, Fox News, France 24, Al Jazeera English, NHK (Japan), CBC (Canada) and CNBC Asia. He also lectures widely to diverse groups and conferences.

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Neri was raised and educated in Israel, Singapore, Spain, and the United States.  He holds a bachelor’s degree from the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University and a master’s degree from the Department of War Studies, King’s College London.