Ari Shavit

Ari Shavit (Hebrew: ארי שביט; born 16 November 1957) is an Israeli reporter and writer. Shavit was a senior correspondent at the left-of-center Israeli newspaper Haaretz before he resigned when a pattern of sexual misconduct came to public attention. From 2019 to 2026, was a weekly columnist for Makor Rishon, an Israeli newspaper. Shavit was the chairman of the nonprofit Association for Civil Rights in Israel.
A self-described left-wing journalist and anti-occupation peacenik, Shavit is the author of the 2013 New York Times Best Seller My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel.