Adi Schwartz - Biography

Adi Schwartz is an Israeli freelance journalist with over 10 years experience in leading Israeli and international media outlets. He specializes in in-depth analysis, interviews and on-the-ground reportage, covering Israeli domestic affairs, the Israeli-Arab conflict, as well as social, cultural and historical issues.

He worked as staff writer and senior editor for Israel’s leading newspaper, Haaretz, and was the newspaper’s special envoy to Brussels, London, Rome and Latin America.

Currently, he is Monocle magazine’s correspondent in Israel. He writes for Israel Hayom, Maariv, The Jewish Chronicle, Il Foglio, The Mumbai Mirror and others.

His main fields of interest are the Middle East Conflict, Israeli current affairs, Anti-Semitism, Jewish-Christian relationship and social and cultural tensions in Europe.

Adi Schwartz teaches journalism at the Sapir College in the southern city of Sderot. He is a guest lecturer and commentator on Israeli current affairs for various institutes and think tanks.

Adi Schwartz holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Western History from the Tel Aviv University. He speaks 6 languages - Hebrew, English, French, Spanish, Italian and Hungarian.