Yoel Cohen is a British-born academic currently living in Jerusalem, where he is Associate Professor at the School of Communication, Ariel University, Israel. He has written several books and articles concerning the news media and the Middle East, including The Whistleblower of Dimona: Israel, Vanunu and the Bomb (Holmes and Meier, 2003) and Whistleblowers and the Bomb (Pluto, 2005).