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Michael Elkins (born New York, USA, 22 January 1917, died Jerusalem, Israel, 10 March 2001)〔 〕 was an American broadcaster and journalist who worked for the American network, CBS, for the magazine ''Newsweek'' and then for 17 years with the BBC. He was the first to report Israel's destruction of Arab air forces on the opening day of the Six-Day War in 1967.〔 〔 〕 〔 〕 CBS did not trust his report and he left. ==Origins== Elkins was the youngest of three sons of East European Jewish immigrants who made clothes in the sweatshops of the Lower East Side.〔 He was embarrassed that his parents spoke Yiddish and that his father walked ahead of his mother in the street.〔 He excelled at school 〔 and educated himself in libraries.〔 He fell in with hoodlums in New York,〔 then moved to the American West Coast as a union organiser before joining his brother Saul to write scripts in Hollywood.〔〔 He worked in Europe in the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA 〔 during the second world war.〔 In 1947 Elkins met Teddy Kollek in New York. Kollek was later mayor of Jerusalem.〔 In 1947 he was organising illegal shipments of arms to the Jewish Haganah in Palestine. Elkins joined in.〔 The FBI discovered his involvement and he and his wife, Martha, fled to Israel.〔〔 They lived on a kibbutz, then moved a year later to Jerusalem. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Elkins」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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