Eitan Haber

Eitan Haber (Hebrew: איתן הבר‎, born 12 March 1940) is an Israeli journalist and publicist. He is known for his writing on military and security issues, and for his longtime association with the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

Eitan Haber, with a portrait of Yitzhak Rabin behind him.

Biography

Eitan Haber was born in Tel Aviv. He came from a Revisionist Zionist family.[1] When he was eleven, he secretly joined the Betar youth movement but when his father found out, he was furious. At that point, he joined the religious Tzofim. [2]

Journalism and media career

In 1958 he was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces and was posted as a reporter for the Bamahane military newspaper. During his service he met and befriended the commander of the Northern Command, Yitzhak Rabin.

On his discharge from the IDF in 1960, he joined Yedioth Ahronoth as a correspondent on military issues.[3] He was also an investigator for several Israeli television programs and edited and presented radio programs on Israel Army Radio.

In late 1985 he was appointed by Rabin, then Minister of Defense, to be his special media adviser. After Rabin's withdrawal from the government in 1990, he returned to Yedioth Ahronoth. When Rabin was elected Prime Minister in 1992, he was appointed to be an adviser and bureau chief. He wrote many of Rabin's speeches, was part of the team that secretly negotiated the Israel–Jordan Treaty of Peace,[3] and organized Rabin's official travels abroad, including to the Oslo Accords and Rabin's reception of the Nobel Prize for Peace.

On the night of 4 November 1995, he delivered the official government statement regarding Rabin's death:[4]

The government of Israel announces in dismay, in great sadness, and in deep sorrow, the death of prime minister and minister of defence Yitzhak Rabin, who was murdered by an assassin, tonight in Tel Aviv. May his memory be blessed.

After Rabin's death, he returned to his journalistic career. He has written several books and coauthored others with Michael Bar-Zohar, Ze'ev Schiff, Yossi Melman and Ehud Ya'ari.

Business career

He has been the President and CEO of Geopol Ltd. since 1996. Since 2001, he has served as CEO of Kavim Ltd., and is a member of the board of directors of Africa Israel Ltd. and "Israel Experience Co." Since 2002, he has been a director of Ampal Ltd.[5] He is also a board member of the Jewish Agency for Israel.[3]


Published works
  • Porat, Yeshayahu Ben; Eitan Haber; Zeev Schiff (1977). Entebbe Rescue. Delacorte Press. pp. 346. ISBN 0-440-02162-6.
  • Haber, Eitan (1978). Menahem Begin: The Legend and the Man. Delacorte Press. pp. 321. ISBN 0-440-05553-9.
  • Haber, Eitan; Zeev Schiff; Ehud Yaari (1979). The Year of the Dove. Bantam Books. p. 312.
  • Bar-Zohar, Michael; Eitan Haber (1983). The Quest for the Red Prince. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. p. 232.
  • Michael Bar-Zohar and Eitan Haber (1983) Massacre in Munich Lyons Press, ISBN 1-59228-945-2
gollark: > hoping for more people to die and greater economic damage because it would boost your political ideology
gollark: The economic damage is almost certainly better than the increased deaths/sick people which would result from doing less.
gollark: And I'd argue that not knowing exactly what it can do means you should treat it more seriously.
gollark: It's very infectious, mortality rate between, what, 0.2% and 10%, depending (probably only 10% as an upper bound with really overloaded healthcare), and not really any good treatments yet.
gollark: We have a decent idea.

See also
  • Journalism in Israel

References
  1. Netanyahu and Likud’s Leaders: The Israeli Princes, Gil Samsonov
  2. Israel at Sixty: An Oral History of a Nation Reborn, Deborah Hart Strober, Gerald S. Strober
  3. "HaberEitan". Retrieved 2008-03-13.
  4. Macintyre, Donald (2005-11-04). "Israelis mourn Rabin, and lost hopes of peace". The Independent. Retrieved 2008-03-13.
  5. "Eitan Haber Profile". Forbes. Retrieved 2008-03-13.
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