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Dror Globerman (Born December 24th, 1977) is a Israeli media personality, TV Host, commentator, speaker and musician.

Early Life
Globerman was Born in Haifa, northern Israel. He attended the gifted program at the Leo Baeck Education Center. He started his media activity during high school, as school newspaper editor, and on various youth media outlets. He served most of his military service at IDF as a writer in the Israeli Air Force Magazine.

Career
Globerman worked at Maariv newspaper from 1999 to 2009. He started as a high-tech writer and later as tech section editor and weekend business magazine editor.

In 2001 he revealed the leakage of Israel's computerized citizens' registry by political parties to the internet.

In 2005 he made public (with Amit Cohen) the service of the combat UAV in the Israeli Air Force, known as "Project Zik," and its involvement in the assassination of terror operatives in the Gaza Strip.

From 2009 to 2011, he was a member of the Channel 2 News, serving as a presenter, news flash announcer, and a reporter for culture and technology. From March 2010, he presented a season of "Leydiat Hagoleshim ", Israel's first web culture TV show, on Keshet Broadcasts. In August 2011, he began presenting the magazine show "Anashim" ("People") on the same franchise while concurrently establishing and later editing the digital channel on Keshet's Mako website.

In September 2017, he joined Galei Tzahal, hosting a weekly show focusing on innovation and technology.

In January 2018, he started hosting the daily show "NEXT" on Keshet 12, covering innovation and technology and its impact on human society.

The program initiated a campaign leading to the enactment of the "Digital Communication with Public Agencies" (also known as "The Fax Law") by the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, in July 2018. The Bill requires Israeli public bodies to offer digital communication options and prohibits fax-only communication.

In November 2018 Globerman interviewed Edward Snowden, the former U.S. security services employee, from his hiding place in Moscow. On this interview Snowden criticized Israel's role and its high-tech sector in human rights violations worldwide. He blamed NSO Group in tracking the dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was assassinated. The interview made headlines throughout international media.

In 2019, Globerman hosted the series "Net Animals" on Kan Kids, interviewing internet celebrities with children and teenagers.

In October 2019, his documentary "The Battle for the Brain" was broadcast on Keshet. It dealt with various issues exacerbated in the social media era, like addiction, depression, loneliness, decline in intimate relationships, polarization, extremism, the spread of fake news, flourishing of conspiracies, and the erosion of trust in media, state institutions, and democracy.

The documentary explored the destructive aspects of the interaction between advanced technologies like Artificial Intelligence, big data, and social network s with the human brain, featuring interviews with high-profile individuals such as Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, Prof. Dan Ariely and Tristan Harris. The documentary received high ratings and significant media attention.

In the summer of 2020 he began broadcasting the weekly podcast "While You Were Working" with Danny Peled, a managing partner at Stardom VC.

In April 2021, Keshet broadcasted the second documentary in Globerman's "Battle for the Brain" series titled "The Industry of Lies." The film exposed the political and business mechanisms behind the fake news industry, bots, and avatars online. It revealed the involvement of a foreign country in the March 2020 Israeli Knesset elections. According to the documentary, this involvement aimed to promote Benny Gantz's election and lead to the downfall of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Since then, two more films in the series have been produced and broadcast.

Globerman is occasionally interviewed on local and international media in his fields of expertise, such as Artificial Intelligence and social media.

Awards
Globerman's co-hosted podcast was awarded the "Technology Podcast of the Year" by Geektime​​ in January 2022 and again in January 2023.

His radio show was awarded the Galatz radio station prize of excellence on the fall of 2023.

Musical Career
Globerman is a keyboard, piano and guitar player. He has been performing and recording as part of Yuval Gurevich's band as well as the "Nag Hammadi" band, also known as "the band of the journalists".