Rafael Behr
Rafael Behr is a columnist at The Guardian, since 2014, and former political editor at the New Statesman.
Born and brought up in London, he comes from a Jewish family from South Africa and spent each summer with relatives in Israel. He has said he is an atheist.
Rafael Behr has worked at the Financial Times, The Observer, the New Statesman and The Guardian. In 2014, Behr was named political commentator of the year at the 2014 Comment Awards. In 2019, he was shortlisted for the same award once again. In January 2020, Behr revealed he had survived a heart attack at Christmas.
