About Robert Rosenberg

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Ariga founder, and author of The Avram Cohen Mystery Series, I have been a working journalist/writer in Israel since 1976. The photo, from 1987, is by my brother, by Peter L. Rosenberg

I was born in 1951 in Boston, Mass., and have been living in Israel since early 1973. After completing a B.A. in education at Tel Aviv University and an ED.M. from Harvard in 1976, I began working as a journalist, spending two years with UPI, a year with TIME/LIFE, and four years with US News&World Report, as well as freelancing as an Isaeli correspondent for many international magazines, with my articles appearing in such magazines as Playboy, Penthouse, and Readers Digest. My main beat was as a national affairs reporter for the old Jerusalem Post in its last twelve years before its purchase in 1990 by the Hollinger Corp. From 1985 to 1990 I wrote the Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv column, about post-Zionism and the difference between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

From 1991 to 1997, I helped establish and manage LINK, Israel's first international business and high-tech magazine in the English language.

In 1987 I began the Avram Cohen mystery series with Crimes of the City. It was eventually published by Simon & Schuster, in 1991, by Penguin in 1993-- both out of print -- and has subsequently been published by Poisoned Press. Click here to order a copy of the Poisoned Press paperback edition, from Amazon

After Crimes of the City I wrote The Cutting Room,which was published in 1993, also by Simon & Schuster. Unfortunately it is now out of print, though Amazon does usually have used copies available. But it can be downloaded from here, as a winzipped file you can unzip and read in html formatting through your browser. Unzip the file into a directory of its own, and start with the index.htm file.

During 1994 I wrote House of Guilt, the third book in the Avram Cohen series, published by Scribner in the fall of 1996. It, too, has been reissued by Poisoned Press, an independent bookseller and publisher of fine crime and mystery literature, and is available through Amazon and other online booksellers. Poisoned Press also carries some autographed editions. Click here to go to Poisoned Press

During the same period I wrote Secret Soldier: The Autobiography of Israel's Greatest Commando. Published on the 20th anniversary of the 1976 Entebbe Rescue, it is an unprecedented first-person account by Col. (res.) Muki Betser, a legendary commander of Sayeret Matkal, the Israel Defense Forces most elite military unit. It is out of print, but there are used copies usually avauilable through Amazon

The fourth book in the Avram Cohen Quartet, An Accidental Murder, came out from Scribner in January 1999. It is available through Amazon. Click here to order your copy.

In 1995 I started Ariga R&D -- Publishing for Pleasure and Peace. Ariga means weave in Hebrew. In 1998, I co-founded The DataSphere Group, which created Koldoon, the online technology investment wizard -- the world's largest database of pre-IPO technology companies and their investors.

At the end of 2001, I became a senior desk editor at Ha'aretz-IHT, the English-language version of Israel's daily newspaper, Ha'aretz, published by Ha'aretz and the International Herald Tribune.

I'm married to Silvia Cherbakoff-Rosenberg, an artist and interior designer, whose drawings and icons appear in Ariga pages. We have a daughter, Amber, and we live in Tel Aviv.

You can write to me c/o robert@ariga.com