“Wolf Blitzer is currently the host of the newscast The Situation Room [formerly Wolf Blitzer Reports] and the Sunday talk show Late Edition.
Blitzer, who has the same first name as his maternal grandfather, grew up in Buffalo, New York, the son of Jewish refugees from Poland.
Blitzer is the author of two books: Between Washington and Jerusalem: A Reporter’s Notebook (Oxford University Press, 1985) and Territory of Lies (Harper and Row, 1989).
During the 1970s, Blitzer wrote for Hebrew–language newspapers using aliases. Blitzer wrote for Al Ha–Mishmar, a newspaper affiliated with the left–wing Mapam political party under the name Ze’ev Blitzer. He also wrote for Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel’s most widely–read paper, under the name Ze’ev Barak. “Ze’ev” and “Barak” are both Hebrew names; the former means “wolf,” while the latter means “lightning,” the German word for which is “Blitz.”