Ehud Yaari (Hebrew: אֵהוּד יָעָרִי; born 1 March 1945) is an Israeli journalist, author, television personality and political commentator.
In 1985 Hava and her friend, pharmacy owner Aviva Granot, embezzled funds from Mala Malavsky, a Jewish-American tourist and Holocaust survivor, and later murdered her by striking her over the head with a rolling pin and running her over with a car.
[1] Their trial was conducted amid heavy publicity and media attention, and was considered the most highly sensational murder case in Israel's history at the time.
He has interviewed Yasser Arafat, King Hussein of Jordan and his son Abdullah, President Husni Mubarak of Egypt, almost all Israeli prime ministers since Menachem Begin (including Yitzhak Rabin), Bashar al-Assad, Bachir Gemayel, Muammar al-Gaddafi and others.
Ya'ari has published articles in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Atlantic Monthly.