Join us Tuesday, April 12  NEW DATE TUESDAY, APRIL 26TH for a briefing from Jerusalem Post analyst Herb Keinon on the current situation in Ukraine and on the response in Israel to the crisis..

Herb Keinon, is the senior diplomatic analyst at The Jerusalem Post, and writes analysis, features and editorials on diplomacy, Israeli society and politics for the paper. He has been at the paper for the last 34 years.

Originally from Denver, Keinon has a BA in political science from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and an MA in journalism from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. He has lived in Israel for some 37 years, is married with four children, and lives in Ma’ale Adumim, just outside of Jerusalem.

For nearly 20 years, Keinon served as the paper's chief diplomatic correspondent, taking over that beat in August 2000, just after the failed Camp David summit, and just before the outbreak of the Palestinian violence in September of that year. Responsible for covering the prime minister and the foreign minister, he often traveled with the Prime Minister on his trips abroad.

He has followed Ehud Barak to Paris, Ariel Sharon to Crawford, Texas; Ehud Olmert to Annapolis; and Binyamin Netanyahu to Beijing, Entebbe and Mumbai. As such, Keinon has up-close knowledge and an intimate perspective of the country’s political, diplomatic and strategic challenges – from Hamas to Hizbullah, Lapid to Likud.

Keinon also writes a popular monthly “light” column on life in Israel. A collection of these columns, French Fries in Pita, was published in 2014.

In addition, Keinon has lectured widely in Israel, the US, Europe and Australia on the political and diplomatic situation in Israel.

Keinon wrote another book in 2009 –Lone Soldiers: Israel’s Defenders from Around the World – which tells the tale of young Diaspora Jews who volunteer to serve in the Israeli army.

Originally from Denver, Keinon has a BA in political science from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and an MA in journalism from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. He has lived in Israel for some 37 years, is married with four children, and lives in Ma’ale Adumim, just outside of Jerusalem.