Matti Friedman

Matti Friedman is an award-winning journalist and author. Born in Toronto and based in Jerusalem, he writes frequently for The Atlantic , The Free Press , and Smithsonian , and has been an op-ed columnist for the New York Times and an AP correspondent. Friedman's last book, Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel , won the 2019 Natan Prize. Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story of a Forgotten War was chosen in 2016 as a New York Times Notable Book and one of Amazon's 10 best books...See more

Matti Friedman is an award-winning journalist and author. Born in Toronto and based in Jerusalem, he writes frequently for The Atlantic , The Free Press , and Smithsonian , and has been an op-ed columnist for the New York Times and an AP correspondent. Friedman's last book, Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel , won the 2019 Natan Prize. Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story of a Forgotten War was chosen in 2016 as a New York Times Notable Book and one of Amazon's 10 best books of the year. His first book, The Aleppo Codex , won the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize and the ALA's Sophie Brody Medal. See less