Itai Anghel ( he, איתי אנגל) is an Israeli correspondent and documentary filmmaker. He is a staff reporter for , a television news program on Channel 12 ( Keshet). He mainly covers conflict zones all over the world. In 2017 Anghel was awarded the '

Sokolov Award The Sokolov Award, also known as Sokolov Prize, is an Israeli journalism award, awarded by the Tel Aviv municipality, in memory of Nahum Sokolow. The award has been granted since 1956, initially to outstanding print journalists and since 1981 to ...

' which is Israel's highest award for journalism. Anghel is also a lecturer of history and international relations. He teaches a course about world conflicts in universities in

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

Journalism career

Anghel begun his work as a journalist in 1989, as the foreign affairs editor of Galey Tzahal - ''Galatz'',

Israel Army Radio Army Radio ( he, גלי צה"ל lit. IDF waves) or Galei Tzahal, known in Israel by its acronym Galatz ( he, גל"צ), is a nationwide Israeli radio network operated by the Israel Defense Forces. The station broadcasts news, music, traffic report ...

. While editing the world news, he edited and hosted the news magazine and consequently was awarded the "Galey Tzahal Chief Commander award". In 1993, he started working with Israeli TV's Channel 2 news, as the world news editor. Later, he started working for the main week's magazine for Channel 2, creating documentaries. Moving up the ladder of Israeli journalism, Anghel later moved to , hosted by

Ilana Dayan Ilana Dayan-Orbach ( he, אילנה דיין-אורבך; born 8 May 1964) is an Israeli investigative journalist, anchorwoman, and attorney. She is best known as host of the investigative television program ("Fact") on the Israeli Channel 12. B ...

. In 1991 he was sent to

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to cover the war. Between 1992–1995 he was sent to

Bosnia Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and He ...

several times, and sent his reports to Galey Tzahal and ''

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'', a daily newspaper in Israel. These reports awarded him the first

for his outstanding work in journalism. He also reported from

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, and

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, focusing on the conditions of these countries in the aftermath of the breakup of the

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. In 1994 Anghel was sent to

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to cover its civil war. In 1999 he covered the war in

Kosovo Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a partially recognised state in Southeast Euro ...

and in 2000 he returned to

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. In 2001, after the

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on the World Trade Center in New York City, he was sent to Pakistan and Afghanistan. In Israel, he covered the

al-Aqsa Intifada The Second Intifada ( ar, الانتفاضة الثانية, ; he, האינתיפאדה השנייה, ), also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada ( ar, انتفاضة الأقصى, label=none, '), was a major Palestinian uprising against Israel. ...

Ramallah Ramallah ( , ; ar, رام الله, , God's Height) is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank that serves as the ''de facto'' administrative capital of the State of Palestine. It is situated on the Judaean Mountains, north of Jerusale ...

Nablus Nablus ( ; ar, نابلس, Nābulus ; he, שכם, Šəḵem, ISO 259-3: ; Samaritan Hebrew: , romanized: ; el, Νεάπολις, Νeápolis) is a Palestinian city in the West Bank, located approximately north of Jerusalem, with a populati ...

, and

Jenin Jenin (; ar, ') is a Palestinian city in the northern West Bank. It serves as the administrative center of the Jenin Governorate of the State of Palestine and is a major center for the surrounding towns. In 2007, Jenin had a population of app ...

. While working for ''Uvda'', he was sent to Iraq in 2003 to create a documentary on the post-

Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein ( ; ar, صدام حسين, Ṣaddām Ḥusayn; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolution ...

era. In 2004, he traveled to Indonesia to cover the tsunami disaster set off by the

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. In December 2005, he returned to Iraq with ''Uvda'' to provide a retrospective of the previous years and resultant chaos there. During the

2006 Lebanon War The 2006 Lebanon War, also called the 2006 Israel–Hezbollah War and known in Lebanon as the July War ( ar, حرب تموز, ''Ḥarb Tammūz'') and in Israel as the Second Lebanon War ( he, מלחמת לבנון השנייה, ''Milhemet Leva ...

, Anghel accompanied a

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unit of the

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on a night mission in Southern

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. The documentary shows actual encounters with the

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. Later that year, Anghel traveled to the

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, and returned with a three-part documentary depicting the horrors and atrocities in the area. Following a positive response to these broadcasts, he decided to arrange a rock concert benefit for Congo. It led to a special delegation of Israeli

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who went for one month to the remote areas in the jungles of East Congo, setting there clinics and, for a period of one month, treating the women who were raped violently, and besides, providing local women and men nurses the essential equipment to treat them in the following years. In December 2012, Anghel and fellow Israeli journalist Amir Tivon entered Syria to report on its civil war. In December 2014, Anghel went to Syria again to report on the civil war. His research was broadcast on ''Uvda''. A year later, he returned to northern Syria to the Kurdish enclave of

Kobanî Kobanî (, , also rendered , ar, كُوبَانِي, Kūbānī) (Kurdish: Kobanî/ کۆبانی) officially Ayn al-Arab ( ar, عَيْن الْعَرَب, ʿAyn al-ʿArab ), is a Kurdish-majority city in northern Syria, lying immediately ...

which was under siege of ISIS. In this documentary Anghel also reported on the mass emigration of Kurds to Europe, with a focus on Berlin. His reporting was again broadcast on ''Uvda''. In 2017 Anghel went to Mosul to report from the front-line in the war against Isis.

Awards

In 2010, Anghel received a Cutting Edge prize from the

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at the sixth annual

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in London to celebrate high standards of analysis and reporting in the Middle East. Sokolov Awards In 2017 Anghel won the 'Sokolov Award' which is the highest award for journalism in Israel. In the reasons for the award it was written: "The award for excellence in journalistic work is given to Itai Anghel on bringing Israeli viewers a real picture from war zones and remote conflicts with a considerable degree of personal risk. In all his years, Anghel has been very successful in highlighting the human aspect of wars.” Israel Documentary Awards In the past 7 years Anghel has won 5 times the ‘Best TV documentary’ award by the ‘Israeli forum of documentary filmmakers': * 2011 - The revolution across the border - The revolution in Egypt * 2012 - Human trafficking of Eritrean refugees in Sinai peninsula * 2013 - The Syrian rebellion in Edlib * 2015 - The front line against ISIS and the women guerrilla fighters * 2017 - Invisibles in Mosul - The battle for the capital of ISIS in Iraq

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Anghel, Itai Israeli journalists Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Open University of Israel faculty Israeli people of Romanian-Jewish descent 1968 births

Journalism career

Awards

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