Michael Karpin

Michael I. Karpin (Hebrew מיכאל קרפין, born on 29 November 1945) is an Israeli broadcast journalist and author, best known for his investigative documentaries and books, revealing two of Israel's most concealed affairs: The creation of the country's nuclear capability and the nationalistic-messianic incitement campaign that preceded the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.In May 1986, Karpin broke the story of Israel's secret service (Shabak) fabrication of evidence in the course of Bus Line 300's investigation, one of the most controversial political affairs in the history of the country.In 1987, he exposed the Izat Nafsu Affair: a Moslem IDF officer and a Circassian (a small ethnic minority in Israel), who was maliciously investigated by the secret service, convicted of spying and eventually exonerated by the Supreme Court.Murder in the Name of God (co-author Ina Friedman) depicts the setting up of the incitement campaign against Yitzhak Rabin's firm decision to negotiate peace-for-territories with the Palestinian Authority and portraits the individuals responsible for the PM's assassination.Tightrope – Six Centuries of a Jewish Dynasty (John Wiley & Sons, NY, 2008) is an historical saga of the extraordinary Backenroth family from Galicia (today in western Ukraine) – a true story based on diaries, letters, documents, and oral testimony.