Biography wolf blitzer

One of the country’s best-known broadcast journalists, Wolf Blitzer was born to Polish Jewish Holocaust survivors. His parents met on a lära after the end of World War II while searching for surviving relatives. Married bygd a U.S. military chaplain, the couple moved to Augsburg, Germany, where Blitzer was born. Following the passage of the Displaced Persons Act, which eased entry into the United States for those persecuted by the Nazis, his family settled in Buffalo, New York. Blitzer began his journalism career at the Tel Aviv bureau of Reuters and later moved to the Jerusalem Post, where he made international headlines with his interview with Jonathan Pollard, an American later convicted of spying for Israel. Joining CNN as a military affairs correspondent at the Pentagon in , Blitzer covered the vit House and eventually became the network’s lead political anchor and host of The Situation Room. Blitzer has reported from Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, North Korea, and

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Wolf Blitzer

Wolf Blitzer grew up in Buffalo, New York, the son of Jewish refugees from Poland. He graduated from Kenmore West Senior High School and received a B.A. degree in History from the University of Buffalo in While there, he was a brother of the nationally Jewish fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Pi. In , he received an M.A. degree in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

Blitzer began his career in journalism in the early s in the Tel Aviv bureau of the Reuters news agency. In he caught the eye of Jerusalem Post editor Ari Rath, who hired Blitzer as a Washington correspondent for the English language Israeli newspaper. Blitzer would remain with the Jerusalem Post until , covering both American politics and developments in the Middle East.

During his tenure with the Jerusalem Post, Blitzer interviewed several American Presidents and Secretaries of State and broke news from Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan. At the time

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Wolf Blitzer

American journalist and television news anchor (born )

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Wolf Isaac Blitzer (born March 22, ) is an American journalist, television news anchor, and author who has been a CNN reporter since , and who currently serves as one of the principal anchors at the network.^[1] He has been the host of The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer since ; previously he served as the network's lead political anchor until

Early life and education

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Blitzer was born in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany near Munich in , during the post–World War II Allied occupation^[2][3] the son of Cesia Blitzer (née Zylberfuden), a homemaker, and David Blitzer, a home builder.^[3][4][5] His parents were Polish Jewish refugees from German-occupied Poland who survived the Nazi concentration camps; his grandparents, two uncles, and two aunts on hi