Ron Leshem (Hebrew: רון לשם; born December 20, 1976), is an Israeli writer and media professional, and author of the novel Beaufort (2005, original Hebrew If There is a Heaven) for which he won the 2006 Sapir Prize for Literature and the Yitzhak Sadeh Prize for Military Literature. The novel was adapted in 2007 into the successful, Academy Award-nominated Israeli film Beaufort.
He served as journalist and editor for Israeli mainstream dailies Yedioth Ahronoth (1998-2002) and Ma'ariv (2002-2006). [1] In 2006 he became deputy director of programming and special projects for Israeli television's Channel 2.[1]