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Rehov was born to a Jewish family from Algiers, when Algeria was still a French department. He experienced terrorism at a young age. In the sixties, Rehov left Algeria with his mother and younger brother to join his father, already in France. In 1961, his family became a part of pied-noirs (French settlers) fleeing Algeria. A later film on Jewish refugees (Silent Exodus) described the fate of Jews who fled Arab countries after 1948. He chose not to describe his own community from Algeria, since the Algerian war was a colonial problem involving France more than the Jewish community, although he recalls that Jews in Algeria, had been suffering of Muslim antisemitism for decades, when Algeria was part of France.
Having worked for years in Muslim countries, Rehov claims that every reporter must be (or appear to be) pro-Palestinian to work in the Palestinian territories safely and this, among other things, creates systematic anti-Israeli bias, especially on French media outlets. He advocates a two-state solution, for Palestinians and Israelis to live side by side, but does not believe that peace will be possible for many generations.
In January 2008, Rehov was embedded in the 4/1 US cavalry in Baghdad, where he filmed hours of dailies, showing the situation in Iraq from the field. Those images are part of his last documentary The Path to Darkness.
In 2008 Rehov moved to the United States due to what he described as a growing climate of antisemitism in France and the rest of Europe. Three years later, in November 2011, he moved to Tel Aviv, Israel, where he now lives.
As a novelist, he wrote many books which were published under various names. "Cellules Blanches" (White Cells) is his only novel carrying the name "Pierre Rehov"
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Thriller about the creation of a private army, born to fight international terrorism.
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