Linda Gradstein is a Jerusalem-based journalist and former Israel bureau chief for The Media Line news agency. Gradstein was the

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correspondent for NPR News from 1990 until 2009. As a freelance reporter she has reported for PRI's ''The World'' and AOL News and other venues such as CBS, The Jerusalem Report, and ''Slate''. Gradstein is a member of the team that received the Overseas Press Club award for her coverage of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister

Yitzhak Rabin Yitzhak Rabin (; , ; 1 March 1922 – 4 November 1995) was an Israeli politician, statesman and general. He was the prime minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–1977, and from 1992 until Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, his ass ...

and the team that received Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism for her coverage of the

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. She spent 1998-9 as a Knight Journalism Fellow at

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Background

Gradstein has covered important events in Israel and the

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and

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including the intifada, the mass immigration of Soviet immigrants to Israel, the return of Palestinian leader

Yasser Arafat Yasser Arafat (4 or 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), also popularly known by his Kunya (Arabic), kunya Abu Ammar, was a Palestinian political leader. He was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1969 to 2004, Presid ...

to Gaza, the rise of Hamas, the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the Persian Gulf war, and two elections in Israel. Gradstein earned a bachelor's degree in Foreign Service from

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in 1985 and a master's degree in Arab Studies. She spent a year as a Rotary Fellow at the American University in Cairo. She speaks both

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and

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References

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