Suleiman Maswadeh

Suleiman Maswadeh (; born July 13, 1995 ) is a Palestinian-Israeli journalist, currently the senior Hebrew-language political reporter for the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation.

Biography Suleiman Maswadeh was born and raised in the Muslim Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem. His father, Monzer Maswadeh, is a truckdriver, and his mother, Iman, is a homemaker. He has six younger sisters. He attended "Al-Iman" High school.

He studied accounting at Birzeit University in the Palestinian town of Birzeit. During his studies, he found a job at the Israeli television channel Kan 11.

Maswadeh has said he experiences some pressure from his family and community, especially when his reporting does not reflect the Palestinian community positively; for example, in 2020, Maswadeh reported on COVID-19 restriction violations at the Al-Aqsa complex. He has also reported receiving death threats. after having repeatedly applied over a period of eight years. Up to that point, as an East Jerusalem Palestinian he had the legal status of a "permanent resident" holding an Israeli identity card along with a Jordanian passport.