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Jeffrey Goldberg - Jeffrey Goldberg is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and a recipient of the National Magazine Award for Reporting. Author of the book Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror, Goldberg also writes the magazine's advice column.
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Before joining The Atlantic in 2007, Goldberg was a Middle East correspondent, and the Washington correspondent, for The New Yorker. Previously, he served as a correspondent for The New York Times Magazine and New York magazine. He has also written for the Jewish Daily Forward, and was a columnist for The Jerusalem Post.

His book Prisoners was hailed as one of the best books of 2006 by the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, The Progressive, Washingtonian magazine, and Playboy. Goldberg rthe recipient of the 2003 National Magazine Award for Reporting for his coverage of Islamic terrorism. He is also the winner of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists prize for best international investigative journalist; the Overseas Press Club award for best human-rights reporting; and the Abraham Cahan Prize in Journalism. He is also the recipient of 2005's Anti-Defamation League Daniel Pearl Prize.

In 2001, Goldberg was appointed the Syrkin Fellow in Letters of the Jerusalem Foundation, and in 2002 he became a public-policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
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What? No Masada?

By Jeffrey Goldberg

Jul 22 2008, 12:57 AM ET Comment


If Barack Obama really cared about Israel, he'd climb Masada at dawn, and go to Afula for falafel.

Here is the Israel tour from Hell:

8 A.M. Breakfast at the King David Hotel with Defense Minister Ehud Barak

8:45 A.M. Meeting at the hotel with opposition leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu

9:45 A.M. Visit to Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, wreath-laying at Hall of Remembrance

11 A.M. Meeting with President Shimon Peres

1:30 P.M. Meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the Muqata, in Ramallah

2:45 P.M. Meeting with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni

4:15 P.M. Visit to Sderot with Livni and Public Security Minister Avi Dichter

5:10 P.M. Press conference at Sderot police station

8:30 P.M. Dinner with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert

10:10 P.M. Visit to the Western Wall




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