Ben Caspit (born October 18, 1960) is an Israeli journalist. He serves as a political commentator and a senior reporter for the newspaper "Maariv HaShavua" and Al-Monitor . [1] He presents daily programs on radio station 103fm in the morning program alongside Yinon Magal and in the evening program alongside Aryeh Eldad, and also presents the Hevrat HaHadashot "meet the press" alongside Amit Segal on channel 12.
Ben Caspit | |
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בן כספית | |
Born | |
Education | Bachelor's degree in law from the Tel Aviv University |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, Political commentator |
Years active | 1985–present |
Employer | Hevrat HaHadashot |
Notable work |
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Television | Meet The Press |
Caspit was born in Tel Aviv, and grew up in Holon. He enlisted in the Israeli Defense forces in 1979, to the Armored Corps and served as a Merkava tank commander in the 7th Armored Brigade until 1982. He graduated from Tel Aviv University with a bachelor's degree in law, Worked as a private investigator and engaged in economic and insurance investigations.
In 1985 he joined the "Maariv" newspaper, by the recommendation of his high school friend, Emmanuel Rosen. He first worked as a sports reporter. Later, he served as a municipal reporter, a reporter for police affairs, and for four years was the Maariv correspondent in New York. When he returned to Israel, he became the newspaper's political reporter. In November 2012, as part of the process of purchasing Maariv by Israeli businessman Shlomo Ben Zvi, he was fired from the newspaper, along with other employees. [2]
Shortly after his dismissal, along with those fired from Maariv, he was one of the first members of the new weekly newspaper, "SofHaShavua". In May 2014, after the purchase of Maariv newspaper and its merger with "SofHaShavua" by the Jerusalem Post group, he returned to work in the newspaper which was now called Maariv HaHavua and is one of the senior commentators in the newspaper, who writes opinion columns several times a week there.
Since 2012, Caspit presents a daily radio program on the radio station "103fm", and serves as a columnist for news site Al-Monitor [3] [1]
Caspit is known as a harsh critic of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and has even written two books about him ("Netanyahu: The Road to Power" and "Netanyahu: A Biography"). [4] According to him: "I admit that I am obsessed, I am a father of 3 children, and if someone wants to hurt my child, I will be obsessed with trying to stop him. I am generally quite right-wing in my positions, but I have been following Netanyahu since 1988, and I think he is dangerous for the State of Israel." [5] [6]
In January 2020, it was published in the "Globes" newspaper that over the years Caspit had passed on information to the police in various legal cases related to Netanyahu, including a recording of Judge Hila Gerstel talking to him about the appointment of Avichai Mandelblit to the position of Attorney General. [7]
Caspit resides in Hod HaSharon, has a son from his first marriage and two daughters from his second marriage. In August 2019, he separated from his wife Hila, after 20 years of marriage. [19]
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