Nadav Asher Eyal (Hebrew: נדב אשר איל; born March 6, 1978) is an Israeli journalist and commentator, who served as a foreign news editor for Channel 13.
His father Rafi participated as an IDF paratrooper officer in the Operation Spring of Youth and received the Medal of Distinguished Service for his heroism.
In January 2012 , he was chosen by Globes newspaper as one of the 100 most influential people in the media of 2011, due to what was defined as his part in "fueling the social protests.
"[9][10][11] In October 2014, Channel 10 aired Eyal's documentary Hate: A Journey to the Dark Heart of Racism, which documented the recent rise of antisemitism in Europe.
That same year, he published a series of expansion articles that covered fault lines in American society and examined the possibility of victory for Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election.
[15] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Eyal examined the spread of COVID-19 from the beginning, and the scope and systematic nature of the information and research activities on the subject which he posted on Twitter, as part of his work with Channel 13.
He also promoted a medical policy in which patients infected with COVID-19 would be separated from their families and the number of laboratory tests in COVID-19 would be increased, a model used similarly in South Korea.