Journalist and former Associated Press chief Dan Perry was awarded an Honorable Mention for The Louis Rapoport Award for Excellence in Commentary at the 2026 Simon Rockower Awards, hosted by the American Jewish Press Association.
The award recognized his commentary on Israeli leadership and Middle East geopolitics published in The Forward.
He received the award at the 45th Annual Simon Rockower Awards on June 4, 2026, in New York City. The recognition was for essays published in The Forward tackling topics like West Bank politics and the leadership of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Perry, a former Associated Press editor for Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, also contributes to outlets like Newsweek and The Jerusalem Post, along with his Ask Questions Later Substack.
Universul.net subscribes to Ask Questions Later and regularly publishes his excellent, insightful and humorous reports on international affairs, politics, culture, rock music and his beloved Philadelphia Eagles inter alia in English and Romanian.
During the Second Intifada Perry was AP’s bureau chief in Jerusalem and also served as the chairman of the Foreign Press Association. He has been a regular delegate at the World Economic Forum in Davos and other leadership conferences. Perry studied engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and holds a master’s degree in computer science from Columbia University.
Perry speaks native English, fluent Hebrew and Romanian, and French and Spanish. He began his international career as a journalist in Romania following the 1989 anti-communist revolution.
