Omer Benjakob is a journalist for Haaretz most known for his extensive writing on Wikipedia. He lives in Tel Aviv but was originally born in New York City. ^[2]

Benjakob went to Tel Aviv's famous Ironi Alef High School of the Arts where he graduated in 2005 with a major in both cinema and philosophy. Instead of the compulsory military service in the Israel Defense Forces, Benjakob served as a civilian in southern Israel, near the Gaza border, teaching cinema in a project he founded, eventually helping to set up a educational department for Sderot Cinematheque.

After high school Benjakob assisted Eritrean and Sudanese refugees in filling out asylum requests in English at Mesila. Benjakob attended Ben-Gurion University of the Negev where he studied political science and philosophy. He earned a scholarship from the Rothschild Ambassadorship Foundation and was involved in the political science department's student paper, The Rooster. Benjakob is currently completing his Master's Degree in history and philosophy of science from the Cohn Institute, with his research focusing on Wikipedia and the history of encyclopaedias. ^[3]

Omer freelanced around Israel for a few years, working on independent films, commercials, and clips for Israeli Music Channel. He then spent some time as the creative coordinator for Hillel at the Sapir Academic College. In 2012, Benjakob held a research internship with Prof. Gavriel Motzkin at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute where he pored over citations and in the bibliography of Motzkin's book on the epistemological foundations of history. He also spent some time translating Hebrew to English as an academic translator for Resling Publishing House and Dr. Itzhak Binyamini.

Benjakob was the Senior News Editor at Ynet News for over 2 1/2 years until he joined Haaretz in 2015. He is currently one of their news desk chiefs and also writes a semi-weekly column on Wikipedia and wiki-related news for the paper of record's Hebrew and English weekend supplements, published together with The New York Times International Edition in Israel. ^[3]

His journalistic work on Wikipedia has caused renewed public debate in Israel regarding the online encyclopaedia. His report on Günter Bechly, a German palaeontologist whose Wikipedia page was deleted after he came out against evolution, garnered a number of responses by both critics and supporters of Wikipedia and evolution. He has also written about an attempt to establish a Hebrew-language Wikipedia for ultra-Orthodox Jews. Benjakob's first academic article on Wikipedia and science was published in the Journal of Biological Rhythms, it was called "A Clockwork Wikipedia: From a Broad Perspective to a Case Study". ^[8]