Shira Rubin
Tel Aviv
Foreign reporter, Middle East
Education: Hebrew University, MA in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies; New York University, BA in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
Shira Rubin is a journalist for The Washington Post based in Tel Aviv, covering news from Israel, the Palestinian territories and the region.
Before joining The Post, Rubin worked as a freelance foreign correspondent from Israel, the Palestinian territories, Jordan, France, Germany and Britain.
At the height of the wave of Syrian migration to Europe, Rubin reported from Turkey and Greece on the proliferation of social media-hosted human smuggling networks and on the mental health crisis among refugee communities.
In the months prior to the Arab Spring revolutions, Rubin was a U.S. State
