Lee Yaron
Israeli journalist
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Lee Yaron (Hebrew: לי ירון, born 1994) is an Israeli journalist, author, and theater director who is the climate crisis and New York correspondent for Haaretz.[1][2][3] She is an elected member-representative on the Executive Committee of the Union of Journalists in Israel.[4] Her book 10/7: 100 Human Stories won the National Jewish Book Award in 2025.[2][3]
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| Native name | לי ירון |
| Born | 1994 (age 31–32) |
| Occupation | Journalist, author, theater director |
| Alma mater | Columbia University (MPA) |
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Biography
Lee Yaron was born in 1994 in Tel Aviv, attending Ironi Alef High School.[1][5] She received an Masters of Public Administration in Environmental Science and Policy from Columbia University in 2024.[1][2]
She enlisted in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in 2012, where she served as a military reporter for Bamahane, the official IDF magazine.[6]
Yaron joined Haaretz in 2015 as its chief social welfare correspondent.[7] During this time, she uncovered corruption scandals in the municipalities of Netanya and Rishon LeZion and the discrimination of same-sex couples in adoption proceedings.[7] She is now the newspaper's New York correspondent.[2]
In 2021, Yaron was elected to the Executive Committee of the Union of Israeli Journalists.[4] In 2022 she received the Yitzhak Livni "Knight" Award for Free Speech in Media.[1][8] She was featured on the Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2025.[2][9]
In 2024, Yaron published 10/7: 100 Human Stories, a book documenting the personal stories of those involved in the October 7 attacks.[10] The book won the National Jewish Book Award in 2025, making Yaron the youngest winner in its history.[2][3][9][11] The book has been published in English, French, German and Dutch.[11]
Yaron is also the founder of Green Idea, the first journalist training program in the Middle East dedicated to climate coverage.[1][12][13]
Personal life
Yaron is married to novelist Joshua Cohen.[10] She has written and directed several plays with the goal of bring attention to marginalized communities in Israel and the Middle East.[2][14][15]