Itai Angel (55), is an award-winning Israeli reporter and documentary filmmaker. He has been awarded the Sokolov Prize, Israel’s highest honor for journalism, several times. He works as a reporter for Uvda, a television news program on Channel 12 (Keshet). He reports from conflict zones around the world.
From 1991 to 1995, he traveled to Croatia and Bosnia several times to report on the war. He was sent to Bosnia several times and sent his reports to Gali Tzahal and the Israeli daily Haaretz. Reports came in from Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Georgia and Azerbaijan covering conditions following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In addition, he reported from the civil war in Rwanda in 1994, the Kosovo War in 1999, and Pakistan and Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks. More TV documentaries followed about how Engel was with the Israel Defense Forces’ Nahal unit, during the Al-Aqsa Intifada in Ramallah after Saddam in Iraq, and during the 2006 Lebanon War. The documentary also shows encounters with Hezbollah. She made a three-part documentary about the horrors and rapes in the Congo. Documentaries from Syria later followed with reports, including the enclave of Kobani, where Kurdish female fighters were besieged by ISIS. In 2017, Engel traveled to Mosul to report from the front lines in the war against ISIS. He visited Ukraine twice in 2022.
