Hadas Gold is a correspondent on CNN’s Media team.

Previously, Gold was a correspondent in Jerusalem, covering one of the most intense periods for the region in recent memory. She reported live under rocket fire with round the clock coverage during the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks and ensuing war, as well as the 11-day war between Hamas and the Israeli military in 2021 and flare ups in between.

She regularly reported from the scene of the alarming record levels of violence between Israelis and Palestinians, which has claimed some of the highest numbers of casualties in Israel and the occupied West Bank since the days of the Second Intifada. Gold has reported extensively on the rise of new militant groups, Israel’s now-regular military raids into the West Bank and the future of the Palestinian Authority.

Gold has also reported extensively on the drastic internal political changes happening in Israel, from the unprecedented protest movement against the Israeli government’s judicial overhaul plan, to Benjamin Netanyahu’s historic corruption trial and loss of the premiership in 2021, as well as his comeback 18 months later. She has also covered Israel’s world-first COVID-19 vaccination campaign, historic visits by Israeli leaders to new partners like Bahrain, as well as President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territories in 2022.

Before moving to Jerusalem, Gold covered media, tech and politics for CNN from London and prior to that, Washington, D.C. where she was one of the lead reporters on the Trump administration’s historic lawsuit to prevent AT&T from acquiring CNN’s-then parent company Time Warner.

Prior to joining CNN, Gold spent more than five years at Politico as a media reporter, during which she was named one of the “most influential media reporters” by Mediaite in 2017. In 2011, while a graduate student she was awarded a fellowship with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting where she reported on trash pickers in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Gold graduated from the George Washington University with a B.A. in journalism and a M.A. in media and public affairs. She is a member of the National Council at the George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs. Follow her on Twitter @hadas_gold.