Matthew Kalman is the co-author, with Matt Rees, of The Murder of Yasser Arafat, published in January 2013.
Kalman has been a foreign correspondent based in Jerusalem since 1998 reporting for Times of Israel and Haaretz. He has also reported for American publications including the Chronicle of Higher Education , [1] MIT Technology Review , the Boston Globe , Time , Newsweek , San Francisco Chronicle , [2] New York Daily News and USA Today . In addition, he has reported for the British Daily Mail , London Sunday Times , and the Canadian The Globe and Mail .
He is currently working with the London-based The Independent .
Kalman was appointed editor in chief of The Jerusalem Report in January 2012. [3] [4] and held the position until August 2012, resigning when asked to "implement a 10 per cent budget cut demanded by the management." Kalman said "I would rather resign than try to produce the magazine on even more of a shoestring than we currently have." [5]
Kalman has also reported for and is a television contributor for PBS in the United States, and Channel 4 News, UK, [6] [7] and CTV in Canada.
He is a commentator for BBC Radio [8] in Britain, and other radio programs in Canada as well.
Kalman was the only reporter present throughout the 7-year James Ossuary trial in Jerusalem of Oded Golan, accused of faking the ossuary, or burial box, of James, the brother of Jesus. [9] [10] He thoroughly chronicled the events online. [11] [12]
In 1999, then-Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin made a peace offer to the incoming Israeli government of Ehud Barak during an interview with Kalman. [13] [14]
In 2008, he co-directed and co-produced, with David Blumenfeld, the documentary Circumcise Me: The Comedy of Yisrael Campbell , which has been screened at more than 50 film festivals in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and on TV in the US and Israel. [15] [16]
He graduated Cambridge University with an MA in History. [7] In 1983/84, he had been chairman of the Union of Jewish Students.