Amos Harel (born 1968) is one of Israel's leading media experts on military and defense issues. Harel is the senior defense correspondent for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Harel has covered Israeli security affairs for the last 27 years. He has published three books: "The Seventh War"(2004) about the second Intifada and "34 Days" about Israel's second Lebanon War (2009) were both written with Avi Issacharoff and both received the prestigious Tchetchic award (awarded by the Institute for Strategic Studies (INSS), Tel-Aviv University). "34 Days" has been translated to English. Harel's latest book "The New Face of the IDF" was published in Hebrew in 2013. In 2015, Harel won the Sokolov award, Israel's most prestigious prize for excellence in journalism.