Ben-Dror Yemini (Hebrew: בן-דרור ימיני born 1954) is an Israeli journalist. He currently works for the daily newspaper Maariv.
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Ben-Dror Yemini was born in Tel-Aviv to a Yemenite Jewish family.[1] He studied Humanities and History at Tel Aviv University and then pursued a degree in law. After graduation, he worked as an advisor to the Israeli Minister of Immigration Absorption and then became spokesman of the Ministry.
In 1984, he began his career as a journalist. His book Political Punch is a critique of politics and society in Israel. Since 2003, Yemini has been the opinion page editor of Maariv.
Most of his newspaper articles are intended to refute what he regards as anti-Israel claims.[1] He has published articles about the Israeli-Arab conflict in which he examines the issues of genocide, refugees, Palestinian and Arab capital, the status of Israeli Arabs[2], multiculturalism and the status of women. He argues that the same way Jews were demonized, Israel is being demonized; the same way the right of Jews to exist was denied, the right for self-determination is denied to Israel, the same way Jews were presented as a menace to the world, Israel is presented as a menace to the world.
Yemini says he has been mislabeled as a right-winger and has a "long track record in the Israeli peace camp."[1] He met with Yasser Arafat in Tunis and has several friends who are PLO officials.[1] He is a long-time believer in a two-state solution, but believes Israel should have the same right of self-determination as the Palestinians.[1]