Yardena Schwartz in Rhinebeck

Reporting From The Most Reported Place On Earth: How an American journalist tells the complex story that is Israel

Yardena Schwartz is an award-winning American journalist based in Tel Aviv. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Pacific Standard Magazine, US News, USA Today, Tablet, Haaretz, The Forward, The Daily Beast, and elsewhere. She has reported from Israel and the West Bank, Morocco, Nepal, Ukraine, Poland, and the United States. Yardena previously worked at NBC News in New York, including stints at The Today Show, Nightly News, and Andrea Mitchell Reports. Yardena graduated with honors from Columbia Journalism School and is a recipient of the 2016 RNA award for magazine reporting. In 2013 she earned an Emmy nomination for her work at MSNBC.

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