A journalist and the author of four works of nonfiction, Friedman’s book “Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel” (2019), won the Natan Book Award and the Canadian Jewish Book Award and “Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story of a Forgotten War” (2016) was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book and one of Amazon’s 10 best books of the year. “The Aleppo Codex”, an investigation into the strange fate of an ancient Bible manuscript, won the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize, the ALA’s Sophie Brody Medal, and the Canadian Jewish Book Award for history and was translated into seven languages. Friedman’s work as a reporter has taken him from Israel to Lebanon, Morocco, Moscow, the Caucasus, and Washington, DC. A former Associated Press correspondent and essayist for the New York Times opinion section, he currently writes a monthly feature for Tablet Magazine.