12 Facts About Matti Friedman

Matti Friedman is a Canadian-Israeli journalist and author.

Matti Friedman is an op-ed contributor for the New York Times, and columnist for Tablet magazine.

Matti Friedman was born to a Canadian Jewish family and grew up in Toronto.

Matti Friedman was conscripted into the Israel Defense Forces and served in the Nahal Brigade.

Matti Friedman was deployed to the Israeli security zone in southern Lebanon during the South Lebanon conflict in the late 1990s, spending much of his service at an Israeli position called Outpost Pumpkin, the name of which was to inspire the title of a book he later wrote about his experiences in Lebanon.

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Matti Friedman is married with three children and lives in Jerusalem.

Matti Friedman's wife is the descendant of an Old Yishuv Jewish family with roots in the old Sephardi community of Jerusalem and Hebron.

Between 2006 and the end of 2011, Matti Friedman was a reporter and editor in the Jerusalem bureau of the Associated Press news agency.

Matti Friedman's book, The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible, published in May 2012 by Algonquin Books, is an account of how the Aleppo Codex, "the oldest, most complete, most accurate text of the Hebrew Bible, " came to reside in Israel.

Matti Friedman concludes instead that it arrived in Israel essentially intact, and that a particular Israeli scholar was most likely responsible for the loss.

In 2019 Matti Friedman published Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel, the story of four Arabic-speaking Jews who operated an Israeli, pre-independence Zionist intelligence unit, the "Arab Section, " in Beirut, then in the territory of the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon towards the end of the British Mandate for Palestine.

Matti Friedman said when he was a correspondent at the AP,.