Zev Chafets
Native name	זאב חפץ
Born	1947 (age 77–78) Pontiac, Michigan, U.S.
Occupation	Author,columnist
Language	English, Hebrew
Alma mater	B.A. University of Michigan graduate studiesHebrew University of Jerusalem.Tel Aviv University.
Genre	Journalism, non-fiction, fiction

Zev Chafets (Hebrew:זאב חפץ; born 1947) is an American-Israeli author andcolumnist.^[1]

Zev Chafets was born in 1947 inPontiac, Michigan, and raised there.^[2][3][4] He graduated from theUniversity of Michigan.^[4] In 1966-67 Chafets was president of theNational Federation of Temple Youth. Heimmigrated toIsrael after theSix-Day War in 1967.^[4] He spent a decade in the army, government service and politics. In 1977, he was appointed director of theGovernment Press Office, a post he held for five years during the administration of Prime MinisterMenachem Begin. Chafets was an active participant in the Egyptian-Israeli peace process and a delegate to the firstIsraeli-Egyptian peace negotiations.

He is the author of fourteen books of fiction, media criticism, and social and political commentary, three of which have been named Notable Books of the Year byThe New York Times. A review inThe New York Times of his bookHeroes and Hustlers called him "an Israeli Tocqueville." He is also the recipient of the 2008Wilbur Award for his bookA Match Made In Heaven. His book onDetroit,Devil's Night, earned him admission to the Michigan Monthly's Detroit Hall of Fame.

Chafets was the founding managing editor and staff columnist ofThe Jerusalem Report magazine. During an extended stay in the United States he was a staff columnist at theNew York Daily News (beginning in 2000) and a frequent contributor toThe New York Times Sunday Magazine.^[5] In 2008, hisNew York Times Magazine cover story onMike Huckabee was a finalist for theNational Magazine Award.^[6] In 2011, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the City of Pontiac, his American hometown.

Following his return to Israel in 2012, Chafets was a contributing columnist to Fox News Online (2013–2016) and Bloomberg Online (2017–2022). Many of his Bloomberg columns were reprinted inThe Washington Post. In 2016 he was the co-host of The Presidential Podcast (Hebrew) on Radio Tel Aviv.

Chafets is a strong supporter of Israel. He has been a vocal critic of Arab dictatorships, Islamic radicalism, extremist groups such asHezbollah andHamas, and what he asserts is a pro-Palestinian bias in academia and parts of the mainstream media. He is also known for his opposition to ultra-orthodox religious political parties. In 2016, as the co-host of The Presidential Podcast (Hebrew) on Radio Tel Aviv, he opposedDonald Trump's candidacy but predicted, a few days before the election, that Trump would win.

Chafets resides inTel Aviv, Israel. He has four children and five grandchildren. He is married to Leah Greenspan.

• Double Vision: How America's Press Distorts Our View of the Middle East (1985)
• Heroes and Hustlers, Hard Hats and Holy Men: Inside the New Israel (1986)^[7]
• Members of the Tribe (Bantam Hardcover) (1988)
• Devil's Night: And Other True Tales of Detroit (1990)^[8][9]
• A Match Made in Heaven: American Jews, Christian Zionists, and One Man's Exploration of the Weird and Wonderful Judeo-Evangelical Alliance (HarperCollins Hardcover - Jan 9, 2007)^[10][11][12]
• Cooperstown Confidential: Heroes, Rogues and the Inside Story of the Baseball Hall of Fame (2009, Bloomsbury USA)^[5]
• Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One (2010)^[13]
• Roger Ailes: Off Camera (2013)^[14]
• Remembering Who We Are: A Treasury of Conservative Commencement Addresses (2015)
• The Bridge Builder (2015)

• Inherit the Mob (Random House) (1993)
• The Bookmakers (Random House) (1995)
• The Project (Warner Books) (1997)
• Whacking Jimmy (as William Wolf) ((Villard))
• Hang Time (Warner Books) (1996)^[15]

The New York Times

• The Tragedy of Detroit^[16]
• "Lives; No Regrets",^[17]
• A letter to the editor correcting the story,^[18]
• The two referenced versions ofNo Regrets, sung by Jimmy Barnes^[19]
• Little Willie John^[20]
• The Sy Empire^[21]
• A subsequent article correction^[22]
• Obama's Rabbi^[23]

• List of Jewish American authors

Author profile pages on:

• Amazon.com
  • "Books By Zev Chafets".www.amazon.com. Retrieved2020-08-01.
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• Bloomberg.com
• New York Post
• NPR.org
• Mentions of Ze'ev Chafets
• JTA.org reports on Panel on media treatment of the Middle East at Hadassah annual conference in 2002
• Appearances onC-SPAN

• 1947 births
• Living people
• People from Pontiac, Michigan
• University of Michigan alumni
• American columnists
• American foreign policy writers
• American magazine editors
• 20th-century American novelists
• American political writers
• American emigrants to Israel
• American Zionists
• Israeli journalists
• Jewish American novelists
• American male novelists
• 20th-century American male writers
• 20th-century American non-fiction writers
• American male non-fiction writers
• 21st-century American Jews

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