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Ruth Marks Eglash | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Alma mater | University of Leeds |
| Occupations | Journalist, author |
| Employer | The Jerusalem Report |
| Notable work | Parallel Lines (2023) |
| Awards | United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Journalism Award (2010) |
| Website | rutheglash |
Ruth Marks Eglash is a British-Israeli journalist, and previously the editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Report. She served as a Jerusalem correspondent for The Washington Post and a senior editor and beat reporter at The Jerusalem Post. She has authored a novel, Parallel Lines, in 2023.
Early life and education
[edit]Eglash was born and raised in the United Kingdom to a British mother and an Israeli father.[1] She studied media communications at the University of Leeds.[1] She has said she spent every summer of her childhood in Israel and always expected to settle there.[2] She immigrated to Israel in the mid-1990s after completing her university studies, holding Israeli citizenship by descent through her father.[1][2]
Career
[edit]Early career
[edit]Eglash began her journalism career at The Jerusalem Post, initially working in graphic design and page layout before transitioning into writing and reporting.[2] During a period living in the United States she worked for the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she became deputy editor.[2]
The Jerusalem Post
[edit]She subsequently returned to The Jerusalem Post, spending a total of 13 years there as a senior editor and beat reporter. Her reporting focused primarily on social welfare issues, including the immigration of Ethiopian Jews, poverty, and women's rights in Israel.[1][2] She also served as the paper's first Social Media Editor.[3]
The Washington Post
[edit]In 2013, Eglash joined The Washington Post as its Jerusalem correspondent, a position she held for approximately eight years.[1][2] In this role she covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israeli elections, and a wide range of political and social topics, with access to both Israeli and Palestinian sources.[2] She left The Washington Post in October 2020.[4]
Later career
[edit]After leaving The Washington Post, Eglash worked as a senior correspondent for Jewish Insider for approximately three years, and contributed to Fox News Digital.[2] Following the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, she reported for several international outlets including The Times and The Express.[2] In 2024 she joined the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency in Jerusalem, focusing on breaking news; she departed in mid-2025, having found the agency's fast-paced news cycle at odds with her preference for in-depth reporting.[2]
Throughout her career Eglash has also freelanced for numerous publications, including the HuffPost, USA Today, Hadassah Magazine, the British Jewish Chronicle, and the Christian Science Monitor.[1][5]
The Jerusalem Report
[edit]In September 2025, Eglash was appointed editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Report.[6][2]
Books
[edit]Parallel Lines (2023)
[edit]In June 2023, Eglash published her debut novel, Parallel Lines.[7] The young adult novel follows three teenage girls growing up in Jerusalem: one from a secular Jewish family, one from an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family, and one Palestinian from East Jerusalem. Their paths converge during a terrorist attack on the city's light rail.[8] The novel explores tensions not only between Israelis and Palestinians but also between secular and religious Jewish communities.[8]
Eglash has said the book grew out of her experience covering the wave of violence that struck Jerusalem in late 2015 and early 2016, during which she found herself having to explain the attacks to her own teenage children while simultaneously reporting on them for a global audience.[9]
Awards
[edit]In 2010, Eglash received the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Journalism Award for cross-cultural reporting produced jointly with a Jordanian journalist.[1][2]
In 2012, she was among the founders of the International Association of Religion Journalists (IARJ), the first global organisation for journalists covering issues of faith and belief, which held its inaugural meeting at the Rockefeller Foundation's centre in Bellagio.[10]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Bio". Ruth Marks Eglash. Retrieved 29 June 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Aaron Reich (4 January 2026). "Ruth Marks Eglash: Unmatched storyteller with an international career in journalism". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on 1 July 2026. Retrieved 29 June 2026.
- ↑ "Ruth Eglash". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 14 November 2023. Retrieved 29 June 2026.
- ↑ "Washington Post Jerusalem correspondent turns fact into fiction". Jewish News. Retrieved 29 June 2026.
- ↑ "Behind the Bylines: Ruth Marks Eglash | The Jerusalem Post". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. 4 January 2026. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
- ↑ "Ruth Eglash named editor of 'The Jerusalem Report'". The Jerusalem Post. 12 September 2025. Archived from the original on 1 July 2026. Retrieved 29 June 2026.
- ↑ "In debut novel, Ruth Marks Eglash pens an ode to Jerusalem". Jewish Insider. June 2023. Archived from the original on 14 December 2025. Retrieved 29 June 2026.
- 1 2 "To explain Jerusalem's conflicts, she wrote a young adult novel". Christian Science Monitor. 21 September 2023. Archived from the original on 9 December 2024. Retrieved 29 June 2026.
- ↑ "In Parallel Lines, Israeli journalist uses fiction to untangle Mideast conflict". J. Weekly. 1 August 2023. Retrieved 29 June 2026.
- ↑ "About: Purpose, History, Board Members". International Association of Religion Journalists. Retrieved 29 June 2026.