Institute of Politics

Noga Tarnopolsky has decades of experience covering Israel and Palestine, Israeli and Palestinian politics, and the long conflict between them. Her career as a freelance, independent journalist has taken her from Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan to the Vatican and Argentina, but her greatest expertise lies in the American interface with the Israeli-Palestinian arena, and in recent years, in the inner workings of Israel’s increasingly fragile political structure. Her coverage of the political crises that have engulfed Israel in the past five years has appeared in leading publications including The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Politico, and The Daily Beast and New York Magazine, among others. She has appeared as an analyst on broadcast channels including MSNBC, France24, the BBC and TelevisaUnivision, among others, and on NPR and the BBC World Service. She has also written extensively about the Southern Cone of Latin America, especially Argentina, including essays about the murder of five members of her family by the junta that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983. In 2021, at the start of his brief tenure as prime minister, she published an Op-Ed essay profiling then-Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in The New York Times. She is a graduate of Amherst College.