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Wolf Isaac Blitzer born March 22, is an American journalist, television news anchor, and author who has been a CNN reporter since , and who currently serves as one of the principal anchors at the network. Blitzer and his family immigrated to the United States under the provisions of the Displaced Persons Act. While there, he was a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi.

Blitzer has said he has frequently been asked about his name, which has been characterized as seemingly made for TV. He explained that his surname goes back for generations, and that "Wolf" is the same first name as that of his maternal grandfather.

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Blitzer began his career in journalism in the early s, in the Tel Aviv bureau of the Reuters news agency. In , he caught the eye of Jerusalem Post editor Ari Rath , who hired Blitzer as a Washington correspondent for the English-language Israeli newspaper. Blitzer remained with The Jerusalem Post until , covering both American politics and developments in the Middle East.

Fluent in Hebrew , Blitzer also published articles in several Hebrew-language newspapers. Using the name Ze'ev Barak, he had work published in Yedioth Ahronoth. At an April White House press conference, Blitzer asked Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat why Egyptian scholars, athletes and journalists were not permitted to visit Israel.