​Born in Beirut in 1954 to a Jewish family, he had to move to Milan at the age of just three.
As a journalist, he worked for major Italian newspapers as a correspondent or in editorial leadership roles, created and hosted various news programs on Rai, La7, and Laeffe, and served as director of Tg1​ news broadcast.

With Feltrinelli, he has published Operai (1988, 2010), Tu sei un bastardo. Contro l’abuso delle identità (2005), Scintille (2009), Concetta. Una storia operaia (2017), L’infedele (2020), and co-edited, together with Laura Gnocchi, Noi, Partigiani. Memoriale della Resistenza italiana (2020) and Noi, ragazzi della libertà (2021). His latest book is Gaza. Hatred and Love for Israel (2024).