Amir Bohbot

Walla! Defense & Military Analyst. In 2011, Bohbot began working as a military analyst and reporter for the Walla! Website. In 2012, he covered the Pillar of Defense operation in-depth, as well as the Brother's Keeper Operation, to find the three kidnapped teenagers accompanying the special unit Maglan forces. In Operation Protective Edge, he joined the then-commander of the Nahal Brigade, Brigadier General Uri Gordin, and exposed the military activity of Hamas under the guise of sensitive facilities and sites of international aid organizations in Gaza. Bohbot began his journalistic career in the veteran local newspaper "Sheva." Between 1996 and 2011, he worked for the Maariv newspaper, filling several field positions, including a reporter for criminal affairs, politics, municipal systems, law, and investigations for the Weekend magazine. In 2003, he began serving as a reporter and analyst for military and security affairs in Maariv. Bohbot covered in-depth the investigations of Operation Defensive Shield, Days of Penitence operation, on which he published an independent investigation in two parts and Operation Rainbow. He also covered the disengagement from the Gaza Strip process, Operation Summer Rains, the Second Lebanon War, and Operation Cast Lead, during which he joined the fighting forces under the command of then-Paratroopers Brigade commander Major General Herzi Halevi. Bohbot holds a bachelor's degree in communications from Sapir College, a master's degree in communications from Ben-Gurion University, and a master's degree in political science from Bar-Ilan University in a thesis track he completed with honors. He holds a doctorate in the Department of Political Science at Bar-Ilan University on the study of the Israeli targeted killing policy between the years 2000 and 2012 and the decision-making processes of the senior military and political echelon in Israel and the United States. In 2017, Bohbot's debut book was published in English: "Weapon Wizards," which he co-wrote with the former Jerusalem Post's editor-in-chief, lawyer Yaakov Katz. The book dealt with the question of how Israel became a global arms power. The book was translated into Hebrew, Czech, Polish, and Chinese after its success.

Military equipment targeted at an unknown location, during what US CENTCOM says are strikes on Iran, in this video screengrab released July 20.

Amir Bohbot

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