 He was co-recipient (with Thomas Friedman) of the 1983 George Polk Award for covering the 1982 Lebanon War.At the end of his period in Israel he was reprimanded by the director of the Israeli government's press office for breaking military censorship rules by publishing a report about a bus hijacking after which two captured hijackers were killed.He spent a year, 1984–85, as a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. to write "Arab and Jew