Moav Vardi

• Throughout the past 20 years of my journalistic work, I’ve been expertise in covering the Israeli-Arab conflict, US-Israel relation, Israel’s foreign policy, and geo-political conflicts around the world. I’ve been covering the Prime Minister office, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and established connections with foreign Ambassadors in Israel. I traveled multiple times with PM Netanyahu and PM Bennet to cover the visits to foreign countries and the meetings they had with heads of states, among others are: President Putin in Moscow, President XI in Beijing, President Macron in Paris, PM Orban in Budapest.

• The US-Israel relations stands at the core of my journalistic work. As a senior diplomatic correspondent and a chief international correspondent, I’ve been traveling to Washington with the Israeli PM to cover his meetings with the US President at he White House.I have established and maintained direct connections with leaders of American Jewish organizations, US government officials, think tankers and journalists in the states.

• I am frequently being interviewed by foreign media, especially in times of political turmoil or military conflicts. During the war in Gaza following the Oct 7th events, I appeared live on Fox News where I tried to explain the complicated situation in Israel to the American audience.

• I did on-camera interviews with prominent figures in the US-Israel world such as: US Ambassador to Israel Mr. Dan Shapiro; President Trump’s special envoy Mr. Jason Greenblatt; US Special Representative for Iran Mr. Brian Hook; Former US Senator, Joe Lieberman; President of the Union for Reform Judaism Rabbi Rick Jacobs; executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Mr. Malcolm Hoenlein; CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Mr. WIlliam Darrof; J Street President, Mr. Jeremy Ben-Ami.

• In 2019 I was invited by the Jewish Federation of North America (JFNA) to take part in their "FedLab" in Washington DC, where members of federations from all across the US discussed the challenges the American Jewish community is facing regarding antisemitism, security threats, and the Jewish identity among young American Jews.

• As part of the journalistic coverage of the Israeli-Arab conflict and the Middle East peace process, I did a televised interview with the head of the ‘Quartet’ Mission former UK PM Mr. Tony Blair. traveled to Bahrain a year before the Abraham Accords were signed and did an on-camera interview with Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Mr. Khalid Al Khalifa.I was one of the very few Israeli journalists to travel to Iraq and Syria to document the battle against ISIS. I covered the Arab Spring in Egypt from Tahrir Square in Cairo during the dramatic days that led to the fall of President Mubarak, and also traveled to the Sultanate of Oman and Tunisia to cover Israel-related stories.

• As part of the coverage of the Russia- Ukraine conflict, in early 2014 I went to the Crimea Peninsula and reported from there while the Russian invasion and annexation of Crimea took place. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine (February 2022) I went to Ukraine to report on the war, and documented the struggle of Jewish community in western Ukraine .A year later I went to Ukraine to cover the events marking one year for the war, and did on-camera interviews in Kyiv with a senior advisor to President Zelensky and the head of the Ukrainian military intelligence.

• As the host of the Friday night talk show of IPBC, I am doing short documentary stories about current events in Israel, along with interviews with cabinet ministers and prominent public figures and conducting studio panels to discuss the issues which dominate the public agenda.

As the chief international correspondent of IPBC and the head of the network’s foreign desk, I am the direct manager of 10 foreign desk reporters and producers, who are in charge of all the content gathering and the reporting of foreign news on all IPBC’s TV, Radio and Digital platforms.

Major (res.), Intelligence Officer in the elite commando unit “Sayeret Matkal”