Wolf Isaac Blitzer is an American journalist, television news anchor and author. He is the host of The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and also serves as the network’s lead political anchor. In 1986, he became known for his coverage of the arrest and trial of Jonathan Pollard, an American Jew who was charged with spying for Israel.
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Wolf Isaac Blitzer is an American journalist, television news anchor and author. He is the host of The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and also serves as the network’s lead political anchor. Blitzer began his career in journalism in the early 1970s, in the Tel Aviv bureau of the Reuters news agency. In 1985, Blitzer published his first book, Between Washington and Jerusalem: A Reporter’s Notebook. In 1986, he became known for his coverage of the arrest and trial of Jonathan Pollard, an American Jew who was charged with spying for Israel. He was the first journalist to interview Pollard and later wrote a book about the Pollard Affair titled Territory of Lies. He moved to New York in November 2015, in accordance with federal guidelines in place at the time of his sentencing in May of that year. He currently lives in New York City with his wife and two children.
He has a son and a daughter, both of whom are active members of the U.S. Air Force Reserve and the Israel Air National Guard. He also has a stepson, a son-in-law, and a stepdaughter, who are active in the Israeli Air Force and the Israeli Army respectively. His parents were Polish-Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Poland who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp; his grandparents, two uncles, and two aunts on his father’s side all died there. His surname goes back for generations, and his first name, ‘Wolf’, is the same first name as that of his maternal grandfather. He lives in Buffalo, New York, and graduated from Kenmore West Senior High School. He received a Bachelor of Arts in history from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1970. While at Johns Hopkins, he studied abroad at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he learned Hebrew.
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