Ruth Marks Eglash is a British-Israeli journalist, and previously the editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Report. She served as a Jerusalem correspondent for The Washington Post and a senior editor and beat reporter at The Jerusalem Post. She has authored a novel, Parallel Lines, in 2023.
Early life and education Eglash was born and raised in the United Kingdom to a British mother and an Israeli father. She studied media communications at the University of Leeds. She has said she spent every summer of her childhood in Israel and always expected to settle there. She immigrated to Israel in the mid-1990s after completing her university studies, holding Israeli citizenship by descent through her father.
Career
Early career Eglash began her journalism career at The Jerusalem Post, initially working in graphic design and page layout before transitioning into writing and reporting. During a period living in the United States she worked for the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she became deputy editor.
The Jerusalem Post She subsequently returned to The Jerusalem Post, spending a total of 13 years there as a senior editor and beat reporter. Her reporting focused primarily on social welfare issues, including the immigration of Ethiopian Jews, poverty, and women's rights in Israel. She also served as the paper's first Social Media Editor.
The Washington Post In 2013, Eglash joined The Washington Post as its Jerusalem correspondent, a position she held for approximately eight years. In this role she covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israeli elections, and a wide range of political and social topics, with access to both Israeli and Palestinian sources. She left The Washington Post in October 2020.
Later career After leaving The Washington Post, Eglash worked as a senior correspondent for Jewish Insider for approximately three years, and contributed to Fox News Digital. Following the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, she reported for several international outlets including The Times and The Express. In 2024 she joined the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency in Jerusalem, focusing on breaking news; she departed in mid-2025, having found the agency's fast-paced news cycle at odds with her preference for in-depth reporting.
Throughout her career Eglash has also freelanced for numerous publications, including the HuffPost, USA Today, Hadassah Magazine, the British Jewish Chronicle, and the Christian Science Monitor.
The Jerusalem Report In September 2025, Eglash was appointed editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Report.
Books
Parallel Lines (2023) In June 2023, Eglash published her debut novel, Parallel Lines. The young adult novel follows three teenage girls growing up in Jerusalem: one from a secular Jewish family, one from an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family, and one Palestinian from East Jerusalem. Their paths converge during a terrorist attack on the city's light rail. The novel explores tensions not only between Israelis and Palestinians but also between secular and religious Jewish communities.
Eglash has said the book grew out of her experience covering the wave of violence that struck Jerusalem in late 2015 and early 2016, during which she found herself having to explain the attacks to her own teenage children while simultaneously reporting on them for a global audience.
Awards In 2010, Eglash received the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Journalism Award for cross-cultural reporting produced jointly with a Jordanian journalist.
In 2012, she was among the founders of the International Association of Religion Journalists (IARJ), the first global organisation for journalists covering issues of faith and belief, which held its inaugural meeting at the Rockefeller Foundation's centre in Bellagio.
References
External links
Official website Ruth Eglash at The Jerusalem Post Ruth Eglash at The Washington Post Ruth Marks Eglash at Jewish Insider