First two Israeli journalists sneak into Lebanon, and now this. Israeli pundit and security commentator for Yediot Ahranot (and a Lt. Col. in the paratrooper reserves) Ron Ben Yishai has made it out to Deir al Zur in eastern Syria to hunt for the site of the Israeli air strike earlier this month. The full report will be in tomorrow’s Yediot.
6 responses so far ↓
1 issandr // Sep 26, 2007 at 8:22 am
Zey?
How did he get in — does he have another nationality?
2 Yossi Gurvitz // Sep 26, 2007 at 8:55 am
Ron Ben Yishai was also the first Israeli journalist to get into Iraq, if I recall correctly.
3 Charles Levinson // Sep 26, 2007 at 5:04 pm
I can only assume he must have a second passport. Ben Yishai apparently has a history of boldly going where few Israelis dare to go. I’ve heard he was in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion, in Iraq during Desert Storm and again during the second Gulf War.
4 lally // Sep 27, 2007 at 11:06 pm
So where’s the promised report? Is it available in Hebrew only or have the Israeli military censors done their thing again?
5 Charles Levinson // Sep 28, 2007 at 8:01 am
I was mistaken. The Yediot article is in today’s paper, not yesterday’s.
Here’s the link to the shortened Ynet version:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3454168,00.html
6 Lisa // Sep 29, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Funny, no- one is accusing Ron of endangering Syrian lives or making the lives of foreign reporters in Syria more difficult.
And yes, he does have a foreign passport.
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