Charles enderlin biography

Charles Enderlin is a Franco-Israeli journalist, specialising in the Middle East and Israel.

Charles enderlin biography

He is the author of a number of books on the subject, including Shamir, une biographie (1991), Shattered Dreams: The Failure of the Peace Process in the Middle East, 1995-2002 (2002), and The Lost Years: Radical Islam, Intifada and Wars in the Middle East 2001-2006 (2007).

He was awarded France's highest decoration, the Légion d'honneur, in August 2009.

Enderlin came to international public attention in September 2000, when he provided the voice-over for a controversial France 2 report, now commonly referred to as the Muhammad al-Durrah affair, during which Enderlin reported that Israeli soldiers had targeted and killed a Palestinian boy, one of the key events at the start of the Second Intifada.

Enderlin's reporting of the incident was criticized as inaccurate, and the affair sparked a controversy in France about journalistic standards and defamatio