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Wolf Isaac Blitzer (born March 22, 1948) is a journalist and television news anchor, who has been a CNN reporter since 1990. He is the host of The Situation Room and the daytime show Wolf. Blitzer also serves as the network's lead political anchor.

Contents [show] Early life[edit] Blitzer was born in Augsburg, Germany,[2][3] the son of Cesia Blitzer (née Zylberfuden), a homemaker, and David Blitzer, a home builder.[4][5][6] His parents were Jewish refugees from Poland, and Holocaust survivors.[7] He was raised in Buffalo, New York. Blitzer graduated from Kenmore West Senior High School and received a Bachelor of Arts in history from the University at Buffalo in 1970. While there, he was a brother of Alpha Epsilon Pi. In 1972, he received a Master of Arts in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. While at Johns Hopkins, Blitzer studied abroad at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he learned Hebrew.[8]

Name[edit] Blitzer has said that he has frequently been asked about his name, which has been characterized as seemingly made-for-TV.[9] Blitzer explains that his surname goes back for generations, and his first name, 'Wolf', is the same first name as his maternal grandfather.

In writing for several Israeli newspapers in Washington, Blitzer has used the names Zev Blitzer and Zev Barak.[10] Zev (זאב) is the Hebrew word for "wolf" and Barak (ברק) is the Hebrew word for "lightning" (which in German/Yiddish is Blitz).

Career[edit] Washington and Jerusalem[edit] Blitzer began his career in journalism in the early 1970s in the Tel Aviv bureau of the Reuters news agency. In 1973 he caught the eye of Jerusalem Post editor Ari Rath, who hired Blitzer as a Washington correspondent for the English language Israeli newspaper. Blitzer remained with the Jerusalem Post until 1990, covering both American politics and developments in the Middle East.[11]

In the mid-1970s, Blitzer also contributed to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) as the editor of their monthly publication, the Near East Report.[12][13] While at AIPAC, Blitzer's writing focused on Middle East affairs as they relate to United States foreign policy.

At an April 1977 White House press conference, Blitzer asked Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat why Egyptian scholars, athletes and journalists were not permitted to visit Israel. Sadat, somewhat taken aback, responded that such visits would be possible after an end to the state of belligerence between the two nations. This was Sadat's first public acknowledgment that peace between Egypt and Israel was possible. In November of that year, Sadat made a historic visit to Israel, and Blitzer covered the negotiations between the two countries from the first joint Israeli-Egyptian press conference in 1977 to the final negotiations that would lead to the signing of the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty two years later.[11]

Fluent in Hebrew, in this period Blitzer also published articles for several Israeli-based newspapers. Under the name Zev Blitzer, he wrote for Al HaMishmar; using the name Zev Barak, he had work published in Yedioth Ahronoth.[10]

In 1985, Blitzer published his first book, Between Washington and Jerusalem: A Reporter's Notebook (Oxford University Press, 1985). The text outlined his personal development as a reporter, and the relations between the United States and Israel.

Jonathan Pollard[edit] In 1986, he became known for his coverage of the arrest and trial of Jonathan Pollard, an American Jew who was charged with spying for Israel.[11] Blitzer was the first journalist to interview Pollard, and he would later write a book about the Pollard Affair titled Territory of Lies.[14] In the book, Blitzer writes that Pollard contacted him because he had been reading Blitzer's byline for years, and because Blitzer "had apparently impressed him as someone who was sympathetic".[15] Pollard also hoped that Blitzer would help him "reach the people of Israel, as well as the American Jewish community."[16]

Blitzer's interview with Pollard was controversial in the context of the legal action against him, as it was construed by some media voices as a possible violation of the terms of Pollard's plea deal, which forbade media contact. Blitzer's subsequent book about the affair was included in The New York Times list of "Notable Books of the Year" for 1989.[17] In its review, the Times praised the book as "lucid and highly readable" and called Blitzer's judgment of Israeli officials "harsh but fair".[18]

A review in The New York Review of Books was more critical, prompting a letter from Blitzer accusing the reviewer of making several inaccurate statements. Reviewer Robert I. Friedman responded to Blitzer's criticism by characterizing Territory of Lies as "a slick piece of damage control that would make [Blitzer's] former employers at AIPAC (not to mention Israel's Defense Ministry) proud."[19]

CNN[edit]

Blitzer reviews notes during a break from presenting from the floor of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. In May 1990, Blitzer moved to CNN and worked as the cable network's military affairs reporter. Blitzer spent a month in Moscow in 1991, and was one of the first Western reporters to visit KGB headquarters. His team's coverage of the first Gulf War in Kuwait won a CableACE Award and made him a household name.

In 1992, Blitzer became CNN's White House correspondent, a position he would hold until 1999. During this period, he earned an Emmy Award for his coverage of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. In 1998, he began hosting the CNN Sunday morning interview program Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, which was seen in over 180 countries. Blitzer's first assignment as an anchor was on the daily newscast The World Today, in 1999. In 2000, he started anchoring his own show, Wolf Blitzer Reports.

CNN selected Blitzer to anchor their coverage of the 2004 presidential election, the 2008 presidential election and the 2012 presidential election.[20] Since August 8, 2005, Blitzer has hosted The Situation Room, a two-hour afternoon/early evening program on CNN.[21][22]

In 2013, he started anchoring the 1pm ET hour of CNN Newsroom, until 2014, when the slot was renamed as Wolf.

Awards[edit] Blitzer has won awards including the 2004 Journalist Pillar of Justice Award from the Respect for Law Alliance and the 2003 Daniel Pearl Award from the Chicago Press Veterans Association. His news team was among those awarded a George Foster Peabody Award for coverage of Hurricane Katrina, an Alfred I. DuPont Award for coverage of the 1999 Southeast Asian tsunami, and an Edward R. Murrow Award for CNN's coverage of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

In November 2002, he won the American Veteran Awards' Ernie Pyle Journalism Award for military reporting. In February 2000, he received the Anti-Defamation League’s Hubert H. Humphrey First Amendment Freedoms Prize. In 1999, Blitzer won the International Platform Association's Lowell Thomas Broadcast Journalism Award. Blitzer won an Emmy Award for his coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing. Blitzer was also part of the CNN team that was awarded a Golden ACE award for their 1991 Gulf War reporting. In 1994, American Journalism Review cited him and CNN as the readers' choice for the Best in the Business Award for network coverage of the Clinton administration.[21] In May 1999, Blitzer was awarded the honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters by the University at Buffalo. On May 20, 2007, Blitzer was awarded the honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by the George Washington University at their undergraduate commencement exercise.[23] On May 23, 2010, Blitzer was awarded the honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by Niagara University at their undergraduate commencement exercise. Also, on May 14, 2011 he received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Penn State University.[citation needed] On September 25, 2011, Blitzer was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by the University of Hartford.[24] On May 10, 2014, Blitzer received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Howard University.[25]

Other media appearances[edit] Blitzer appears as himself in the 2009 documentary "Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace." The film deals with the back room negotiations that led to the historic 1979 Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt. At the time, Blitzer was the Washington Bureau Chief of the Jerusalem Post, and played a key role in establishing a back channel of communications between Israel and the White House by introducing President Carter's General Counsel, Robert Lipshutz, to New York businessman Leon Charney, a close friend of then Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman.[26] The flow of information between Weizman and Carter, via Charney and Lipshutz, contributed to finalizing the peace agreement between Israel and Egypt.

On September 17, 2009, Blitzer competed on an episode of Celebrity Jeopardy!, finishing the Double Jeopardy round with −$4,600. He was given $1,000 to bet in Final Jeopardy!, finishing with $2,000 and ultimately losing to comedian Andy Richter, who won $68,000 for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.[27][28]

Blitzer has appeared in numerous films as himself reporting on events, including actual events and fictional events dealing with the related movie's plot including the James Bond film Skyfall and in the blockbuster trailer parody "Movie: The Movie: 2V" presented on Jimmy Kimmel Live!.[29] He was in the news in Ben 10: Omniverse. In An American Benwolf in London, Ben noticed that Wolf Blitzer was on TV, and then decides to rename Benwolf into Blitzwolfer.

Family[edit] Blitzer and his wife Lynn Greenfield live in Bethesda, Maryland, and have one daughter, Ilana, born in 1981.[30]

From http://search.archives.jdc.org/notebook_ext.asp?item=76367 :- Item ID 76367 Found In Ancestor Jewish Displaced Persons and Refugee Cards, 1943-1959 · Reference Code NY CI · Full Reference Collection: Jewish Displaced Persons and Refugee Cards, 1943-1959 - NY CI Description of Document This is a collection of registration cards of Jewish survivors who registered with the Emigration Department of JDC in Munich and Vienna after World War II for help in emigrating to countries other than Israel. The database includes individual cards from 1945-mid 1950s for 51,554 Displaced Persons in Munich and 25,374 Displaced Persons in Vienna. Primary Name Wolf-Isak Blitzer · Given Name Wolf-Isak · Surname Blitzer Birth Date 3/22/1948 · Birth Month 3 · Birth Day 22 · Birth Year 1948 Location of Birth Augsburg, Germany Accompanied By David Blitzer;Cesia Blitzer;Helena Blitzer;Mendel Zylberfaden Destination United States JDC Emigration Office Germany, Munich Emigration Location Augsburg Original Birth Day 22 Original Birth Month Mar Original Birth Year 48 Original Destination Usa Original File Year 49

וולף בליצר

(באנגלית: Wolf Blitzer; נולד ב-22 במרץ 1948) הוא עיתונאי יהודי אמריקאי מרשת CNN ומגיש תוכניות פוליטיות מובילות ברשת, כגון "חדר מצב" ובעבר "מהדורה מאוחרת עם וולף בליצר". הוא שימש בעברו ככתב רויטרס בישראל וככתב ג'רוזלם פוסט בוושינגטון.

תוכן עניינים 1 ראשית חייו 2 קריירה 3 חייו האישיים 4 קישורים חיצוניים 5 הערות שוליים

ראשית חייו בליצר נולד באאוגסבורג, גרמניה, וגדל בבאפלו שבניו יורק להורים יהודים ניצולי שואה ממוצא פולני. הוא נקרא על שם סבו מצד אימו, וזאת למרות הטענות לכאורה כי שמו הוא למעשה שם עט.[1] בליצר סיים את לימודיו התיכוניים בבית ספר קנמור ווסט סיניור, ובשנת 1970 סיים תואר ראשון בהיסטוריה באוניברסיטת באפלו. בזמן לימודיו אלו הוא היה חבר באחוות אלפא אפסילון פאי, אחוות סטודנטים יהודים בין-אוניברסיטאית הפועלת בארצות הברית וקנדה. בשנת 1972 הוא קיבל תואר שני ביחסים בינלאומיים בבית ספר ללימודים בינלאומיים מתקדמים של אוניברסיטת ג'ונס הופקינס. לקראת הבחירות לנשיאות בשנת 2008, במהלך שידורי בחירות מיוחדים של רשת CNN מהוועידה הדמוקרטית הלאומית בקולורדו, אף נחשף כי בליצר היה בצעירותו נגן קלידים ואף הקליט גרסאות כיסוי לשירים כגון "לואי לואי" משנות ה-50 והיה חבר בלהקת הכיסוי "הקופים" בשנות ה-60 (להבדיל מלהקת הקופים והארקטיק מאנקיז).

קריירה בליצר החל את הקריירה שלו בעיתונאות בתחילת שנות ה-70 כנציג סוכנות הידיעות רויטרס בתל אביב. בשנת 1973 לכד את תשומת לבו של העורך הראשי של העיתון ג'רוזלם פוסט דאז, ארי ראת, אשר שכר את בליצר ככתב העיתון בוושינגטון. כדובר עברית רהוטה, שימש תקופה מסוימת ככתב המדיני של על המשמר (בשמו העברי זאב בליצר) וכן פרסם כתבות בידיעות אחרונות (תחת השם זאב ברק). בליצר עבד בג'רוזלם פוסט עד שנת 1990, כשבמסגרת תפקידו סיקר את הפוליטיקה האמריקאית וההתפתחויות במזרח התיכון. בעת שעבד בג'רוזלם פוסט ראיין בליצר שורה של נשיאים אמריקאים ומזכירי מדינה ושידר חדשות נכנסות מלבנון, ממצרים ומירדן. באותה העת התבלט בסיקור סיפור המעצר והמשפט של המרגל הישראלי ג'ונתן פולארד, והיה לעיתונאי הראשון שראיין את פולארד. בשלב מאוחר יותר הרחיב בנושא וכתב את הספר "אזור השקרים" שאף תורגם לעברית.

באמצע שנות ה-70 עבד בליצר גם עבור השדולה היהודית למען ישראל בוושינגטון, איפא"ק, כעורך הירחון "Near East Report" שעסק בעניינים פנים־קונגרסיים.[2],[3] בזמן שעבד עבור עיתון השדולה היהודית, התמקדה כתיבתו בקשר שבין נושאי המזרח התיכון ומדיניות ארצות הברית. באותה עת עסק גם בשתדלנות עבור איפא"ק במטרה לחזק את האינטרסים של ישראל בוושינגטון.

באפריל 1977, במהלך מסיבת עיתונאים של הבית הלבן, שאל בליצר את נשיא מצרים, אנואר סאדאת, מדוע משכילים, אתלטים ועיתונאים מצריים לא מורשים לבקר בישראל. סאדאת, שנרתע מעט מהשאלה, הגיב כי ביקורים כאלה יהיו אפשריים לאחר שיושם קץ למצב הלוחמה בין שתי האומות. זו הייתה הפעם הראשונה שבה אמר סאדאת כי שלום בין ישראל ומצרים הוא אפשרי. באותה שנה בנובמבר, ערך סאדאת את ביקורו ההיסטורי בישראל, ובליצר סיקר את המשא ומתן בין שתי המדינות, ממסיבת העיתונאים הישראלית-מצרית המשותפת הראשונה ב-1977, ועד לחתימת הסכם השלום בין ישראל למצרים שנתיים לאחר מכן.

במאי 1990 עבר בליצר לעבוד ב-CNN ככתב צבאי ברשתות הכבלים של הרשת. בליצר בילה כחודש במוסקבה ב-1991, והיה לאחד העיתונאים המערביים הראשונים שביקר במפקדות הקג"ב. הסיקור שלו ושל הצוות שלו במלחמת המפרץ זיכה אותו בפרס CableACE Award והעלה את המוניטין שלו כעיתונאי. בשנת 1992 הפך בליצר להיות כתב הבית הלבן של רשת CNN, וזאת עד לשנת 1999. במהלך תקופה זו הוא זכה בפרס אמי על סיקור הפיגוע באוקלהומה סיטי.

בשנת 1998 החל בליצר להגיש תוכנית ראיונות בימי ראשון, שנקראה "מהדורה מאוחרת עם וולף בליצר". תוכנית זו נצפתה בלמעלה מ-180 מדינות ברחבי העולם עד להורדתה בינואר 2009. התפקיד הראשון שלו כמגיש חדשות היה בשנת 1999 בתוכנית ה-BBC, "דה וורלד טודיי", ובשנת 2000 החל להגיש תוכנית חדשות משלו, "וולף בליצר מדווח". בשנת 2004 הוא נבחר מטעם CNN להיות המנחה הראשי של סיקורי הבחירות לנשיאות ותוצאותן, כולל בפריימריז, ומאז אוגוסט 2005 הוא המנחה הקבוע של התוכנית "חדר מצב", תוכנית אקטואליה בת שעתיים בסגנון תוכניות האקטואליה המשודרות בשעות הערב בארצות הברית. תוכנית אקטואליה נוספת בת שעה המשודרת בצהריים ברשת CNN הבינלאומית נקלטת גם בישראל. בליצר גם מנחה עימותים נשיאותיים של הרשת.

חייו האישיים בליצר מתגורר עם רעייתו לין גרינפלד בבת'סדה, מרילנד, הסמוכה לוושינגטון, ולו בת אחת, אילנה בליצר גנדלמן (ילידת 1981).

קישורים חיצוניים https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%A3_%D7%91%D7%9C...

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Wolf Isaac Blitzer (born March 22, 1948) is a journalist and television news anchor, who has been a CNN reporter since 1990. He is the host of The Situation Room and the daytime show Wolf. Blitzer also serves as the network's lead political anchor.

Contents [show] Early life[edit] Blitzer was born in Augsburg, Germany,[2][3] the son of Cesia Blitzer (née Zylberfuden), a homemaker, and David Blitzer, a home builder.[4][5][6] His parents were Jewish refugees from Poland, and Holocaust survivors.[7] He was raised in Buffalo, New York. Blitzer graduated from Kenmore West Senior High School and received a Bachelor of Arts in history from the University at Buffalo in 1970. While there, he was a brother of Alpha Epsilon Pi. In 1972, he received a Master of Arts in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. While at Johns Hopkins, Blitzer studied abroad at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he learned Hebrew.[8]

Name[edit] Blitzer has said that he has frequently been asked about his name, which has been characterized as seemingly made-for-TV.[9] Blitzer explains that his surname goes back for generations, and his first name, 'Wolf', is the same first name as his maternal grandfather.

In writing for several Israeli newspapers in Washington, Blitzer has used the names Zev Blitzer and Zev Barak.[10] Zev (זאב) is the Hebrew word for "wolf" and Barak (ברק) is the Hebrew word for "lightning" (which in German/Yiddish is Blitz).

Career[edit] Washington and Jerusalem[edit] Blitzer began his career in journalism in the early 1970s in the Tel Aviv bureau of the Reuters news agency. In 1973 he caught the eye of Jerusalem Post editor Ari Rath, who hired Blitzer as a Washington correspondent for the English language Israeli newspaper. Blitzer remained with the Jerusalem Post until 1990, covering both American politics and developments in the Middle East.[11]

In the mid-1970s, Blitzer also contributed to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) as the editor of their monthly publication, the Near East Report.[12][13] While at AIPAC, Blitzer's writing focused on Middle East affairs as they relate to United States foreign policy.

At an April 1977 White House press conference, Blitzer asked Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat why Egyptian scholars, athletes and journalists were not permitted to visit Israel. Sadat, somewhat taken aback, responded that such visits would be possible after an end to the state of belligerence between the two nations. This was Sadat's first public acknowledgment that peace between Egypt and Israel was possible. In November of that year, Sadat made a historic visit to Israel, and Blitzer covered the negotiations between the two countries from the first joint Israeli-Egyptian press conference in 1977 to the final negotiations that would lead to the signing of the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty two years later.[11]

Fluent in Hebrew, in this period Blitzer also published articles for several Israeli-based newspapers. Under the name Zev Blitzer, he wrote for Al HaMishmar; using the name Zev Barak, he had work published in Yedioth Ahronoth.[10]

In 1985, Blitzer published his first book, Between Washington and Jerusalem: A Reporter's Notebook (Oxford University Press, 1985). The text outlined his personal development as a reporter, and the relations between the United States and Israel.

Jonathan Pollard[edit] In 1986, he became known for his coverage of the arrest and trial of Jonathan Pollard, an American Jew who was charged with spying for Israel.[11] Blitzer was the first journalist to interview Pollard, and he would later write a book about the Pollard Affair titled Territory of Lies.[14] In the book, Blitzer writes that Pollard contacted him because he had been reading Blitzer's byline for years, and because Blitzer "had apparently impressed him as someone who was sympathetic".[15] Pollard also hoped that Blitzer would help him "reach the people of Israel, as well as the American Jewish community."[16]

Blitzer's interview with Pollard was controversial in the context of the legal action against him, as it was construed by some media voices as a possible violation of the terms of Pollard's plea deal, which forbade media contact. Blitzer's subsequent book about the affair was included in The New York Times list of "Notable Books of the Year" for 1989.[17] In its review, the Times praised the book as "lucid and highly readable" and called Blitzer's judgment of Israeli officials "harsh but fair".[18]

A review in The New York Review of Books was more critical, prompting a letter from Blitzer accusing the reviewer of making several inaccurate statements. Reviewer Robert I. Friedman responded to Blitzer's criticism by characterizing Territory of Lies as "a slick piece of damage control that would make [Blitzer's] former employers at AIPAC (not to mention Israel's Defense Ministry) proud."[19]

CNN[edit]

Blitzer reviews notes during a break from presenting from the floor of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. In May 1990, Blitzer moved to CNN and worked as the cable network's military affairs reporter. Blitzer spent a month in Moscow in 1991, and was one of the first Western reporters to visit KGB headquarters. His team's coverage of the first Gulf War in Kuwait won a CableACE Award and made him a household name.

In 1992, Blitzer became CNN's White House correspondent, a position he would hold until 1999. During this period, he earned an Emmy Award for his coverage of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. In 1998, he began hosting the CNN Sunday morning interview program Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, which was seen in over 180 countries. Blitzer's first assignment as an anchor was on the daily newscast The World Today, in 1999. In 2000, he started anchoring his own show, Wolf Blitzer Reports.

CNN selected Blitzer to anchor their coverage of the 2004 presidential election, the 2008 presidential election and the 2012 presidential election.[20] Since August 8, 2005, Blitzer has hosted The Situation Room, a two-hour afternoon/early evening program on CNN.[21][22]

In 2013, he started anchoring the 1pm ET hour of CNN Newsroom, until 2014, when the slot was renamed as Wolf.

Awards[edit] Blitzer has won awards including the 2004 Journalist Pillar of Justice Award from the Respect for Law Alliance and the 2003 Daniel Pearl Award from the Chicago Press Veterans Association. His news team was among those awarded a George Foster Peabody Award for coverage of Hurricane Katrina, an Alfred I. DuPont Award for coverage of the 1999 Southeast Asian tsunami, and an Edward R. Murrow Award for CNN's coverage of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

In November 2002, he won the American Veteran Awards' Ernie Pyle Journalism Award for military reporting. In February 2000, he received the Anti-Defamation League’s Hubert H. Humphrey First Amendment Freedoms Prize. In 1999, Blitzer won the International Platform Association's Lowell Thomas Broadcast Journalism Award. Blitzer won an Emmy Award for his coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing. Blitzer was also part of the CNN team that was awarded a Golden ACE award for their 1991 Gulf War reporting. In 1994, American Journalism Review cited him and CNN as the readers' choice for the Best in the Business Award for network coverage of the Clinton administration.[21] In May 1999, Blitzer was awarded the honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters by the University at Buffalo. On May 20, 2007, Blitzer was awarded the honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by the George Washington University at their undergraduate commencement exercise.[23] On May 23, 2010, Blitzer was awarded the honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by Niagara University at their undergraduate commencement exercise. Also, on May 14, 2011 he received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Penn State University.[citation needed] On September 25, 2011, Blitzer was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by the University of Hartford.[24] On May 10, 2014, Blitzer received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Howard University.[25]

Other media appearances[edit] Blitzer appears as himself in the 2009 documentary "Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace." The film deals with the back room negotiations that led to the historic 1979 Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt. At the time, Blitzer was the Washington Bureau Chief of the Jerusalem Post, and played a key role in establishing a back channel of communications between Israel and the White House by introducing President Carter's General Counsel, Robert Lipshutz, to New York businessman Leon Charney, a close friend of then Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman.[26] The flow of information between Weizman and Carter, via Charney and Lipshutz, contributed to finalizing the peace agreement between Israel and Egypt.

On September 17, 2009, Blitzer competed on an episode of Celebrity Jeopardy!, finishing the Double Jeopardy round with −$4,600. He was given $1,000 to bet in Final Jeopardy!, finishing with $2,000 and ultimately losing to comedian Andy Richter, who won $68,000 for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.[27][28]

Blitzer has appeared in numerous films as himself reporting on events, including actual events and fictional events dealing with the related movie's plot including the James Bond film Skyfall and in the blockbuster trailer parody "Movie: The Movie: 2V" presented on Jimmy Kimmel Live!.[29] He was in the news in Ben 10: Omniverse. In An American Benwolf in London, Ben noticed that Wolf Blitzer was on TV, and then decides to rename Benwolf into Blitzwolfer.

Family[edit] Blitzer and his wife Lynn Greenfield live in Bethesda, Maryland, and have one daughter, Ilana, born in 1981.[30]