Matti friedman biography for kids
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Matti friedman biography for kids
Matti Friedman
Israeli Canadian journalist and author
Matti Friedman (Hebrew: מתי פרידמן) is a Canadian-Israeli journalist and author. He is an op-ed contributor for the New York Times,[1] and columnist for Tablet magazine.[2]
Biography
Matti Friedman was born to a Canadian Jewish family and grew up in Toronto.[3] His family attended an Orthodox synagogue.
In 1995, he immigrated to Israel at the age of seventeen and settled in Ma'ale Gilboa. His parents and sister joined him a year later.[4][5][6]
He was conscripted into the Israel Defense Forces and served in the Nahal Brigade.
He was deployed to the Israeli security zone in southern Lebanon during the South Lebanon conflict in the late 1990s, spending much of his service at an Israeli position called Outpost Pumpkin, the name of which was to inspire the title of a book he later wrote about his experiences in Lebanon.
Following his military service he stud