Nadav Eyal

Nadav Eyal is one of Israel’s most well-known journalists and a winner of the Sokolov Prize, often regarded as Israel’s Pulitzer. Eyal is also a senior research scholar at Columbia University's School of International and Foreign Affairs (SIPA) an an adjunct professor, contributing to discussions on global and Middle Eastern politics. 

Eyal is a front-page columnist for Yediot Aharonot and Ynet, Israel’s most widely circulated newspaper and popular news site. In 2016, several months before the U.S. presidential elections, Eyal aired Trumpland, a series of short documentaries on Israeli television that explored the grievances affecting America, particularly in the Rust Belt. These received considerable attention for highlighting the forces that would later lead to a Trump victory. He holds an LLB from the Hebrew University Law Faculty in Jerusalem and a master’s degree in global politics from the London School of Economics.