Donald Lloyd Neff (October 15, 1930 – May 10, 2015) was an American author[1] and journalist. Born in York, Pennsylvania, he spent 16 years employed by Time, and was their bureau chief in Israel.[2] He also worked for The Washington Star.
Neff served in the army from 1948 until 1950. After college studies he became a journalist in 1954, and, after a number of positions, joined the Los Angeles Times in 1960 and became their Tokyo correspondent.[3]
Career
Neff joined Time magazine in 1965, and, based in Saigon, covered the Vietnam War for two years. He was then appointed Time's bureau chief in Houston,[3] (where he covered the Apollo Moon landing). He worked as Time magazine's Jerusalem Bureau Chief[4] before leaving the magazine in 1979. He wrote a retrospective piece in 1995 detailing the change in his pro-Zionist perspective during his years as correspondent in the Middle East.[5]
His Warriors Against Israel, according to Archibald B. Roosevelt argued that Henry Kissinger moved the United States from a role as neutral broker in the Middle East, to one in which it was a partner in a strong alliance with Israel.[3]
Awards
In 1980 he received the O.P.C.'s Mary Hemingway Award for best magazine reporting from abroad.[6]
Published work
Donald Neff: Warriors at Suez: Eisenhower Takes America Into the Middle East, Simon And Schuster, New York, 1981. ISBN978-0-671-41010-0
Donald Neff: Warriors for Jerusalem: The Six Days That Changed the Middle East, ISBN978-0-671-45485-2 Linden Press / Simon & Schuster. 1984.
Donald Neff: Warriors Against Israel, How Israel Won the Battle to Become America's Ally 1973, 1988. Brattleboro [VT], ISBN978-0-915597-59-8 The book is about How Israel won the battle to become America's ally in 1973.
Donald Neff: Fifty Years of Israel American Educational Trust, Paperback, 1998 (A collection of 54 articles he has published in the Washington Report over the past several year)
