Yoram Peri
Senior Fellow (October 2001-July 2002)
Middle and Near East • Arab-Israeli conflict • Israeli
politics and society • Civil-military relations • Political
communications
ARCHIVED SPECIALIST PROFILE
Project Focus
"The Role of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) in the Peace Process of
the 1990s"
Background
Yoram Peri is a senior lecturer in the Department of
Communication at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Early in his career
he served as political adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin (1974) and as spokesman of Israel's Labor Party
(1970-73). He had a thirty-year career with the daily
newspaper Davar, serving as its editor-in-chief in
1990-95. He has also been editor of the journal Israeli
Democracy, edited and hosted current affairs programs on
television and radio, and served on the Israel Press Council.
Peri has been a research fellow at the Jaffee Center for Strategic
Studies of Tel Aviv University and a visiting scholar at Harvard
University and Dartmouth College. In 2000-01, he was a
Fulbright Scholar at American University. He has been president of
the New Israel Fund since 1999. His most recent book is The
Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin (2000). An earlier publication,
Between Battles and Ballots: The Israeli Military in Politics
(1983), is still considered the seminal work in its field. Peri holds
a Ph.D. in sociology and political science from the London School of
Economics.
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