Arie was born in Israel and served in the Israeli Defense Forces. He graduated from Tel Aviv University with a degree in political science and journalism. Later, he worked as a defense correspondent for Israel’s largest daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronot. He is the editor-in-chief of the Israeli homeland security website I-HLS.
The Israeli Defense Ministry denied on Sept. 13 an Arabic media report that Israel sold one battery of Iron Dome rocket defense systems to Saudi Arabia.