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Matthew Kalman | |
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| Education | University of Cambridge (MA, History) |
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| Employer | OurCrowd (Chief Content Officer) |
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| Website | matthewkalman |
Matthew Kalman is a British journalist, author, and filmmaker based in Jerusalem. He reported on Israel and the Middle East for some of the world's leading print, broadcast, and digital media organizations before transitioning to the technology investment sector as Chief Content Officer of OurCrowd.
Early life and education
[edit]Kalman was born to a Jewish family in London, England. He graduated from Cambridge University with an MA in History.[1]
During the academic year 1983–84 he served as chairman of the Union of Jewish Students.[1]
Journalism career
[edit]Print and digital reporting
[edit]Kalman has been a foreign correspondent based in Jerusalem since 1998. His work appeared in a wide range of international publications, including Bloomberg News,[2] the Financial Times,[3] the New York Times,[3] The Guardian,[4] Time,[5] Newsweek,[6] the London Sunday Times,[3] the Daily Mail,[4] the Boston Globe,[3] USA Today, the San Francisco Chronicle,[7] the New York Daily News, the Globe and Mail (Canada),[3] the Chronicle of Higher Education,[8] the MIT Technology Review,[9] Haaretz,[10] and the Times of Israel.[11] He also contributed to The Independent[4] and The Daily Beast.[12]
Broadcast journalism
[edit]Kalman served as a television reporter and contributor for PBS in the United States, Channel 4 News in the United Kingdom,[13] CTV in Canada, and CCTV in China. He has been a radio commentator for BBC Radio[14] and several Canadian radio programs.[citation needed]
The Jerusalem Report
[edit]In January 2012, Kalman was appointed editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Report.[15][16] He resigned from the post in August 2012 after being asked to implement a ten per cent budget cut. Kalman stated: "I would rather resign than try to produce the magazine on even more of a shoestring than we currently have."[17]
Notable reporting
[edit]Sheikh Ahmed Yassin interview (1999)
[edit]In May 1999, Kalman conducted an interview with Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, then the leader of Hamas, in which Yassin made a public peace offer to the incoming Israeli government of Ehud Barak. The interview attracted international attention as a rare direct statement of potential compromise from the Hamas leadership.[18][19]
James Ossuary trial
[edit]Kalman was the only journalist to attend and report on proceedings throughout the seven-year James Ossuary fraud trial in Jerusalem. The defendant, Oded Golan, was accused of forging the ossuary - a burial box purportedly belonging to James, the brother of Jesus. Golan was acquitted of the forgery charges in 2012.[20][21] Kalman maintained a dedicated blog throughout the trial documenting the proceedings in detail.[22]
OurCrowd
[edit]Following his journalism career, Kalman joined OurCrowd, a Jerusalem-based equity crowdfunding investment platform described as Israel's most active high-tech investor, as Chief Content Officer and Head of Marketing.[23][24] In this role he hosted and moderated major investment events and webinars, drawing on his journalism background to communicate with investors and the broader financial and technology community.[25]
Books and film
[edit]The Murder of Yasser Arafat
[edit]Kalman is the co-author, with crime novelist Matt Rees, of The Murder of Yasser Arafat, published in January 2013. The work investigates allegations that Yasser Arafat was murdered and draws on reporting conducted in Ramallah, Gaza, Bethlehem, and Jerusalem by two correspondents who covered the Palestinian Authority throughout Arafat's leadership.[26][27]
Circumcise Me
[edit]In 2008, Kalman co-directed and co-produced, with David Blumenfeld, the documentary film Circumcise Me: The Comedy of Yisrael Campbell. The film was screened at more than 50 film festivals in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, and broadcast on television in the United States and Israel.[28]
Personal life
[edit]Kalman lives in Jerusalem with his wife. They have four children.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Official Bio". Retrieved 17 April 2012.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Matthew Kalman – SALT Speaker Profile". SALT. Retrieved 29 June 2026.
- 1 2 3 "Matthew Kalman's Profile". Muck Rack. Retrieved 29 June 2026.
- ↑ Matthew Kalman (11 August 2014). "Meet The Public Face of The Israeli Defence Forces". Newsweek. Retrieved 29 June 2026.
- ↑ "San Francisco Chronicle Foreign Correspondents". Retrieved 17 April 2012.
- ↑ "Chronicle of Higher Education Foreign Correspondents". Retrieved 17 April 2012.
- ↑ "Matthew Kalman, interviewed on British Channel 4 News, Jesus Tomb". 29 February 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
- ↑ "BBC Radio broadcast". 17 July 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
- ↑ "Michaeli: Lapid invited me to join Shinui in 2006". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
- ↑ "Jerusalem Report – About Us". Retrieved 17 April 2012.
- ↑ "Jerusalem Report editor quits over budget demands". The Jewish Chronicle. Archived from the original on 1 August 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
- ↑ "In marked shift, Hamas leader talks of a cease-fire". USA Today. 17 May 1999. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ "United Jerusalem - - Israel-News Today -- 1/9/2004". www.unitedjerusalem.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
- ↑ "Oded Golan is not guilty of forgery. So is the 'James ossuary' for real?". Times of Israel. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
- ↑ "Oded Golan, James Ossuary Proponent, Acquitted of Antiquities Fraud". HuffPost. 14 March 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
- ↑ "James Ossuary Trial". Retrieved 17 April 2012.
- ↑ "Matthew Kalman – Chief Content Officer, Head of Marketing at OurCrowd". The Org. Retrieved 29 June 2026.
- ↑ "Matthew Kalman – Chief Content Officer/Head of Marketing". Bloomberg. Retrieved 29 June 2026.
- ↑ "Matthew Kalman – SALT Speaker Profile". SALT. Retrieved 29 June 2026.
- ↑ "Who killed Arafat? Possibly his closest colleagues". Times of Israel. Retrieved 29 June 2026.
- ↑ "The Murder of Yasser Arafat (DeltaFourth Operations Book 1)". Amazon. Retrieved 29 June 2026.
- ↑ "A conversation with Matthew Kalman, filmmaker". Jerusalemite. Retrieved 17 April 2012.