Donald Neff


Donald Lloyd Neff was an American author and journalist. Born in York, Pennsylvania, he spent 16 years employed by Time, and was their bureau chief in Israel. He also worked for The Washington Star.
Neff served in the army from 1948 until 1950. After college studies he became a journalist in 1954, and, after a number of positions, joined the Los Angeles Times in 1960 and became their Tokyo correspondent.

Career

Neff joined Time magazine in 1965, and, based in Saigon, covered the Vietnam War for two years. He was then appointed Times bureau chief in Houston,. He worked as Times Jerusalem bureau chief before leaving the magazine in 1979. He wrote a retrospective piece in 1995 detailing the change in his pro-Zionist perspective during his years as correspondent in the Middle East.
Neff thereafter wrote mainly for Middle East International and the Washington Report on [Middle East Affairs]. He authored several books, including a trilogy on the Arab–Israeli conflict. Neff died in York, Pennsylvania on May 10, 2015 of heart disease and diabetes, aged 84.
His Warriors Against Israel, according to Archibald B. Roosevelt, argued that Henry Kissinger moved the United States from a role as neutral broker in the Middle East, to one in which it was a partner in a strong alliance with Israel.

Awards

In 1980 he received the O.P.C.'s Mary Hemingway Award for best magazine reporting from abroad.

Published work

  • Donald Neff: Warriors at Suez: Eisenhower Takes America Into the Middle East, Simon And Schuster, New York, 1981.
  • Donald Neff: Warriors for Jerusalem: The Six Days That Changed the Middle East, Linden Press / Simon & Schuster. 1984.
  • Donald Neff: Warriors Against Israel: How Israel Won the Battle to Become America's Ally, 1988. Brattleboro,
  • Donald Neff: Fifty Years of Israel, American Educational Trust, Paperback, 1998
  • Donald Neff: , Institute for Palestine Studies, in Washington, DC, 1995 Time, Apr. 3, 1978
  • Reprinted from Middle East International, 31 March 1995.
  • , Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, February/March 1996, pp. 88, 91–92WRMEA, October 1996, p. 87WRMEA, June/July 1997, pp. 70–72
  • , WRMEA, March 1998, pp. 87–88
  • , WRMEA, April 1998, p. 78–79
  • , WRMEA, May/June 1998, pp. 80, 82
  • , WRMEA, October/November 1998, pp. 83–85
  • , WRMEA, June 1999, pp. 87–88
  • , WRMEA, May/June 2005, p. 14