Ze'ev Chafets

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Ze'ev Chafets
זאב חפץ (Ze'ev Chafets) באולפן רדיו תל אביב.JPG
Born1947 (age 73–74)
Pontiac, Michigan, U.S.
OccupationAuthor, columnist
LanguageEnglish
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
GenreJournalism, non-fiction
Chaefts (left) with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in 2019

Ze'ev Chafets (born 1947) is an American-Israeli author and columnist.[1]

Biography[]

Ze'ev Chafets was born in 1947 in Pontiac, Michigan, and raised there.[2][3][4] He graduated from the University of Michigan.[4] He immigrated to Israel immediately after the Six-Day War in 1967.[4] He spent a decade in the army, government service and politics. In 1977, he was appointed director of the Government Press Office, a post he held for five years during the administration of Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Chafets was an active participant in the Egyptian-Israeli peace process and a delegate to the first Israeli-Egyptian peace negotiations.

Chafets was the founding managing editor of The Jerusalem Report. 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 by The New York Times. He is also the recipient of the 2008 Wilbur Award for his book A Match Made In Heaven.

Chafets was a regular columnist for the New York Daily News from 2000 until 2004. He is a contributor to The New York Times Sunday Magazine.[5] In 2008, his NYT Magazine cover story on Mike Huckabee was a finalist for the National Magazine Award.[6]

Chafets is a political conservative and a strong supporter of Israel. He has been a vocal critic of Arab dictatorships, Islamic radicalism, extremist groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas, and what he asserts is a pro-Palestinian bias in academia and the media. He is also known for his opposition to religious political parties in Israel.

After the first primaries of the 2010 U.S. election season, Chafets identified Rush Limbaugh as "the brains and the spirit behind" the Republican Party's "resurgence" in the wake of the 2008 election of President Barack Obama. Chafets reported that Sarah Palin's "biggest current applause line — Republicans are not just the party of no, but the party of hell no — came courtesy of Mr. Limbaugh."[7] Limbaugh is the subject of Chafets' 2010 book Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One.

In 2016, He was the co-host of The Presidential Podcast (Hebrew) on Radio Tel Aviv.

He resides in Tel Aviv, Israel. He has four children and four grandchildren.

Published works[]

Non-fiction[]

  • 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)[8]
  • Members of the Tribe (Bantam Hardcover) (1988)
  • Devil's Night: And Other True Tales of Detroit (1990)[9][10]
  • 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)[11][12][13]
  • 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)[7]
  • Roger Ailes: Off Camera (2013)[14]
  • Remembering Who We Are: A Treasury of Conservative Commencement Addresses (2015)
  • The Bridge Builder (2015)

Fiction[]

  • 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]

Selected articles in magazines and newspapers[]

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 of No Regrets, sung by Jimmy Barnes[19]
  • Little Willie John[20]
  • The Sy Empire[21]
  • A subsequent article correction[22]
  • Obama's Rabbi[23]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "A Diluted American" Eve Silberman, Michigan Today, Spring, 2000
  2. ^ "Interview with Zev Chafetz, author of Rush Limbaugh: Army of One".
  3. ^ Syme, Daniel B.; Kanter, Cindy Frenkel (1998). 100 Essential Books for Jewish Readers. Carol Publishing Group. p. 181. ISBN 978-0-8065-1906-7.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c Kirszner, Laurie G.; Mandell, Stephen R. (2011-12-22). Patterns for College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-312-67684-1.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b Mcgrath, Charles (28 July 2009). "Zev Chafets's 'Cooperstown Confidential': Taking a Swing at Baseball's Hall of Fame". The New York Times.
  6. ^ Chafets, Zev (12 December 2007). "Mike Huckabee - Presidential Election of 2008 - Elections - Evangelical Movement - Religion - Politics - Republican Party". The New York Times.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b Zev Chavets (May 20, 2010). "The Limbaugh Victory". The New York Times. p. A27. Retrieved 2010-05-20.
  8. ^ "Heroes and Hustlers, Hard Hats and Holy Men: Inside the New Israel". Foreign Affairs : America and the World. 2009-01-28. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  9. ^ "The "White" Version: Devil's Night and Other Not So True Tales of Detroit". Michigan quarterly review. hdl:2027/spo.act2080.0031.001:16.
  10. ^ Joseph, Lawrence (1990-12-17). "Can't Forget the Motor City". The Nation. Vol. 251 no. 21. pp. 774–777.
  11. ^ "A Match Made in Heaven by Zev Chafets". Commentary Magazine. 2007-01-01. Retrieved 2020-08-01.
  12. ^ Shmuel, Rosner. "Zev Chafets". Haaretz.com. Rosner's Domain. Retrieved 2020-08-01.
  13. ^ Gross, Terry (January 18, 2007). "Zev Chafets and the 'Israel-Evangelical Alliance'". NPR.org. Fresh Air. Retrieved 2020-08-01.
  14. ^ Kakutani, Michiko (18 March 2013). "'Roger Ailes: Off Camera,' by Zev Chafets". The New York Times.
  15. ^ Simon, Scott (July 13, 1996). "Simon/Chafets (Hah-Fetz) - Scott speaks with Zev Chafets (HAH-fetz), former press secretary for Israeli Prime Minister Menachim Begin, about his novel "Hang Time" — a story about the kidnapping of three American basketball stars in Israel. (published by Warner Books)". NPR.org. Retrieved 2020-08-01.
  16. ^ Chafets, Ze'Ev (1990-07-29). "The Tragedy of Detroit". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-08-01.
  17. ^ Chafets, Ze'Ev (1999-01-31). "Lives; No Regrets". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  18. ^ "No Regrets". The New York Times. 1999-02-21. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  19. ^ No Regrets. YouTube. Goldisc Records From The Vault Vol. 6, ℗ 2007 Goldisc Records Div. Timeless Entertainment Corp. Official Jimmy Barnes channel on YouTube.
  20. ^ John, Little Willie. No Regrets. YouTube.
  21. ^ Chafets, Zev (2007-10-14). "The Sy Empire". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  22. ^ "Correction: The Sy Empire". The New York Times. 2007-10-28. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  23. ^ Chafets, Zev (2009-04-02). "Obama's Rabbi". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-07-31.

External links[]

Author profile pages on: 

Bloomberg.com
  1. ^ "Books By Zev Chafets". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 2020-08-01.
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