I Choose to Go to War Zones, and I'm the Normal One! | Itai Anghel | TEDxPaloAlto

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Itai Anghel was a war correspondent in some of the world's most war-torn regions. As the only Israeli journalist to cover the Islamic State from within, his work in Afghanistan, Iraq and Rwanda placed him in scenarios that could have cost him his life.   

During his career, Anghel covered conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Haiti, Indonesia, Chechnya, Rwanda, Kenya, Congo (DRC), South Africa, Lebanon, Gaza, Tunisia, Egypt, Iraq and Syria. He received a Cutting Edge prize from the International Council for Press and Broadcasting for his analysis and reporting in the Middle East, and in 2017 won the Sokolov Award, the highest award for journalism in Israel. 

Anghel works for Israeli TV Channel 2 on the documentary and current affairs program Uvda, which has been awarded the "Best TV Documentary" award five times in the past seven years by the Israeli Documentary Filmmakers Forum. In addition to journalistic work, Anghel also founded a humanitarian project that set up clinics in rural East Congo, where Israeli gynecologists provide ongoing guidance to local personnel aiding women who have become victims of sexual assault in the civil war.

Anghel is a lecturer on world conflicts at Tel Aviv University and has been a guest lecturer at universities all over the world. In the past year he was a fellow in the University of Michigan at the Knight-Wallace fellowship. He is among 18 journalists awarded this fellowship from all over the world.

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