A senior political correspondent and analyst for the Times of Israel, Rettig Gur was born in Jerusalem to American-Jewish immigrant parents. He lived in the United States from 1989 to 1999, returning to Israel to serve in the Israel Defense Forces as a combat medic. After completing his military service, Rettig Gur studied history and Jewish thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prior to his current position, he served as the Director of Communications for the Jewish Agency and the Jewish world correspondent for the Israeli English-language daily The Jerusalem Post where his reporting focused on trends in Jewish identity, especially in the United States and Israel.