Dan Klaidman was named Jerusalem bureau chief in June 1999. Klaidman had been a Washington correspondent since February 1996, when he joined Newsweek. As a Washington correspondent, Klaidman covered investigative and legal stories, including coverage of the Supreme Court. He reported on Kenneth Starr and the Clinton impeachment trial, Paula Jones's sexual harrassment lawsuit against Clinton, the campaign fund-raising scandal, China's efforts to influence U.S. politics, and embattled FBI Director Louis Freeh and charges of sloppy work inside the organization's famed crime lab. He also covered the landmark class action suit against the Liggett Group Inc., the first of the U.S.'s top five tobacco companies to settle in the war on tobacco.

For eight years before coming to Newsweek, Klaidman was a senior reporter for Legal Times, where he broke the story of the Clintons' legal defense fund, and obtained the secret Justice Department report on Ruby Ridge revealing much about the FBI coverup. He also reported from Eastern Europe and Italy for Legal Times and American Lawyer Magazine.

In 1992, Klaidman won American Lawyer Magazine's first place media award for enterprise reporting for his August 1991 Legal Times story, which covered the treatment of Hispanics in the Washington, D.C. criminal justice system.

A native of New York City, Klaidman received his B.A. in History from Georgetown University in 1986.