Itai Anghel

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Itai Anghel is an Israeli news correspondent, a staff reporter in the Channel 2 (Israel) "Uvda", the Israeli TV magazine, which is the equivalent to 60 Minutes. He is a professor at the Tel Aviv Open University and teaches a course about world conflicts. Anghel begun his journalist work in 1989 as the world news editor of Galey Tzahal - Galatz, Israel Army Radio. While editing the world news, he has edited and hosted the news magazine, which awarded him the "Galey Tzahal Chief Commander award". In 1993, he moved to TV's Channel 2 news, as the world news editor. Later, started working for the main week's magazine for Channel 2, creating documentaries. Later on moved to "Uvda", hosted by Ilana Dayan.

The main core of his journalist work had been devoted to word conflicts. In 1991 he was sent to Croatia to cover the war. Between 1992 – 1995 he was sent to Bosnia several times, and sent his reports to Galey Tzahal and to Haaretz, a daily newspaper in Israel. These reports awarded him the Israeli "Sokolov Award". These years, he reported from Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Georgia and Azerbaijan, after Soviet Union's collapse.

In 1994 Anghel was sent to Rwanda to cover the civil war. In 1999 covered the war in Kosovo and in 2000 sent to Yugoslavia. In 2001, after the September 11, 2001 attacks in the World Trade Center in New York City, Anghel was sent to Pakistan and later to Afghanistan. In Israel, he covered the al-Aqsa Intifada in Ramallah, Nablus, and Jenin. On all locations covered both points of view: the Israeli and the Palestinian. While in "Uvda", he was sent to Iraq in 2003 to create a documentary on the port Sadam Hussein era. In 2004, sent to Indonesia to cover the Tsunami disaster in the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. In December 2005, returned to Iraq with "Uvda" to cover the chaos in the country in the past couple of years.

During the summer of 2006, in the 2006 Lebanon War, he went out with a Nachal troops into Lebanon. The documentary shows encounter with the Hezbollah. Later on that year went to the Democratic Republic of Congo and returned with a 3-part documentary describing the horrors in the area. Following the feedback from broadcasting these movies, he decided to arrange a Rock Concert benefit for Congo.(Congo Bandaid's website)