Herbert Pundik or Nahum Pundak (born 1927, Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

) is a Danish Jewish  journalist and author. He has worked for the newspaper Information

Dagbladet Information

Information , full name: Dagbladet Information , is a Danish newspaper published Monday through Saturday.Originally established and edited by Børge Outze and published during the World War II by the Danish resistance movement. Information was illegal during the war as it was not regulated by the...

  and as a correspondent for Danmarks Radio

Danmarks Radio

DR – officially rendered into English as the Danish Broadcasting Corporation – is Denmark's national broadcasting corporation. Founded in 1925 as a public-service organization, it is today Denmark's oldest and largest electronic media enterprise...

. Since 1965 he has worked for the newspaper Politiken

Politiken

Politiken is a Danish daily broadsheet newspaper, published by JP/Politikens Hus.The newspaper comes third among Danish newspapers in terms of both number of readers and circulated copies ....

, from 1970 to 1993 as executive editor. Under his leadership Politiken went from sloping sales figures to becoming the largest daily newspaper in Denmark

Denmark

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He admitted to spying for Israel for a decade during the 1960s.

His son Dr. Ron Pundak

Ron Pundak

Dr. Ron Pundak is an Israeli director of the Peres Center for Peace in Tel Aviv. He is on the Board of Driectors of the Aix Group. Ron Pundak is the son of Herbert Pundik, a notable journalist and author....

 is an Israeli historian, who played a vital role in establishing the diplomatic connections between the Israeli and the Palestinians which eventually led to the Oslo Accords

Oslo Accords

The Oslo Accords, officially called the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements or Declaration of Principles , was an attempt to resolve the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict...

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While executive editor he continued to live with his family in Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...

, where they had lived since 1954. To this day, he still lives in Israel working for Politiken as senior foreign correspondent.

Herbert Pundik has received the following awards:

• 1966 Cavlingprisen
• 1993 Rosenkjærprisen
• 1993 Modersmål-Prisen
• 1996 Paul Hammerich-Prisen