He produced and edited a television special on the lessons of the war . He covered the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 and also travelled to Portugal to make a documentary about the Marranos or secret Jews . From 1978 to 1981 he was '' Yediot Aharonot '' political correspondent in Washington , D.C. Meanwhile , he was a commentator for ABC . In 1981 he returned to the Israeli Television as a military correspondent . He covered the 1982 Lebanon War . In September , he informed the Israeli Minister of Defense , Ariel Sharon , of " an alleged massacre being committed by the Phalangists in the Sabra and Shatila camps in Beirut " . He was the first journalist to enter the camps after the Sabra and Shatila massacre . In 2008 , after winning a lifetime achievement award , he named it the most important achievement of his career
Sabra and Shatila massacre
Sabra and Shatila massacre
Ron Ben-Yishai