Awards
Yossi Melman was the recipient of the 1994 “Simon Rockower Award for Excellence in Jewish Journalism” and of the 1995 Boris Smolar Award of Excellence in International News or Feature Reporting”, on behalf of the American Jewish Press Association.
In 2003 together with a few other members of the International consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) investigative team he has received a special award for their coverage “Making a Killing: The Business of War”, a project of 11 feature articles on world wide arms dealers, oil and diamond merchants in Third World countries.
In 2004 survey among Haaretz readers Yossi Melman was selected as the “Most Outstanding and Interesting Writer”.
In 2007 participated together with ICIJ reporters Michael Bilton, Prangtip Daorueng, Ignacio Gomez, Andreas Harsono, Alain Lallemand, Mutegi Njau, Paul Radu, Gerardo Reyes and Leo Sisti) in an investigatory project Collateral Damage: Human Rights and Military Aid After 9/11. The project was nominated for the Online News Association Awards.
In 2008, Melman won an award from the Investigative Reporters and Editors Association (IRE) for his report on a Jordanian Palestinian held illegally by American, Israeli and Jordanian security services.
In 2009 he received the Sokolov Prize, Israel's foremost award for journalism, on account of his investigative work and breaking news about the Israeli security establishment.
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