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Rabbi Abraham Cooper
Affiliation: Associate Dean, Simon Wiesenthal Center
Fields: Human rights; Digital terrorism and hate; interfaith relations; anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism
Tel.: 310-772-2450
E-mail: acooper@wiesenthal.com
Israel-based
Dr. Ephraim Asculai
Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University
Fields: Iranian nuclear weapons development; nuclear proliferation; non-conventional weapons in Arab states; nuclear weapons production process, treaties and agreements
Tel.: 972-3-640-0400 ext. 441; 972-54-666-6323 (cell)
E-mail: hona24@zahaz.net.il

Eitan Azani
Affiliation: Deputy Director, Institute for Counter-Terrorism, IDC Herzliya
Fields: Iran and Shiite terrorism; Hezbollah and the Lebanese theater; global jihad movements; terror financing
Contact through spokesperson:
Tel.: 972-9-960-2754
E-mail: pr@idc.ac.il
Yehuda Ben Meir
Affiliation: Author, National Security Decision making: The Israeli Case
Fields: Israeli domestic politics; civil-military relations in Israel; Israeli public opinion
Tel.: 972-3-640-0400 ext. 469; 972-50-380-8849
E-mail: benmeir@inss.org.il
Haggai Erlich
Affiliation: Professor of Ethiopian and Middle East History, Tel Aviv University and Open University
Fields: Political and social trends in Arab and Islamic societies; militant forms of political Islam; revolutionary movements in Islam; modernity vs. Arab traditionalism (especially in Egypt)
Tel.: 972-3-640-9710
E-mail: erlich@post.tau.ac.il
David Friedman
Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies
Fields: Non-conventional weapons in the Arab world; biological weapons proliferation; chemical weapons proliferation; non-conventional terrorism
Tel.: 972-3-640-0400 ext. 475
E-mail: davidf@inss.org.il
Boaz Ganor
Affiliation: Executive Director and CEO, Institute for Counter-Terrorism, IDC Herzliya
Fields: Terror strategies; definition of terror, terror and the media and public opinion; terrorism and democracy; counterterrorism strategy; non-conventional terrorism; suicide attacks; peace process and terror; relations between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority; Israeli and coping with terror; coping with countries supporting terror; dilemmas in counterterrorism
Tel.: 972-9-952-7279
E-mail: ganor@idc.ac.il

Ely Karmon
Affiliation: Senior Researcher, Institute for Counter-Terrorism, IDC Herzliya; Fellow researcher at the Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS) at IDC Herzliya
Fields: International terrorism; strategic issues in the Middle East and beyond; weapons of mass destruction
Fluent in English, French, Spanish, Italian
Tel.: 972-9-952-7277; 972-9-951-3768; 972-52-265-3306 (cell)
E-mail: ekarmon@idc.ac.il
Isaac Kfir
Affiliation: Senior Researcher, Institute for Counter Terrorism (ICT), IDC in Herzliya
Fields: International relations; international politics; the UN; terrorism: Southeast Asia, South Asia, Horn of Africa; NATO; African politics
Contact through ICT spokesperson
Tel.: 972-9-960-2754
E-mail: pr@idc.ac.il; kfir@isaac.idc.ac.il
Martin Kramer
Affiliation: Wexler-Fromer Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy (Washington, D.C.); Senior Fellow, Olin Institute, Harvard University; Senior Fellow, Adelson Institute, Shalem Center in Jerusalem
Fields: Muslim fundamentalism; impact of Islamization on Arab political culture; inter-Arab affairs; quality of Middle East scholarship in the West
E-mail: Kramer-query@usa.net; http://www.martinkramer.org
Anat Kurz
Affiliation: Coordinator, Project on Terrorism, Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University
Fields: Israel-Palestinian peace process and relations; Palestinian national movement; fundamentalist Islamic movements; low-intensity conflicts; terror organizations and strategy; Islamic fundamentalism; Hezbollah and Iran
Tel.: 972-3-640-0409
E-mail: anatk@inss.org.il

Moshe Marzuk
Affiliation: Researcher, Institute for Counter-Terrorism, IDC Herzilya
Fields: Terror organizations in the Middle East; Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Iran; Iran’s support for terrorist organizations
Contact through spokesperson
Tel.: 972-9-952-7376
E-mail: pr@idc.ac.il
David Menashri
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University
Fields: Post-revolutionary Iran; Iranian support for Islamic extremism; Iran-Israel bilateral relations
Tel.: 972-8-940-1467 (home); 972-3-640-6440 (office); 972-54-661-5171 (cell)
E-mail: menashri@post.tau.ac.il
Ariel Merari
Affiliation: Head, Center for Political Violence, Tel Aviv University
Fields: Political violence; psychology of terrorism; Suicide terrorism; deterrence of state-sponsors of terrorism and sub-state terror groups
Tel.: 972-3-640-8978 (office)
E-mail: merari@post.tau.ac.il
Reuven Paz
Affiliation: Director, Project for the Research of Islamist Movements (PRISM), IDC Herzliya
Fields: Ideological, cultural, political and social roots of Islamic movements and terrorism; impact of Islamic radicalism on Palestinian politics; financing of Middle East terrorist organizations; Iran’s sponsorship of international Islamic terrorism
Tel.: 972-9-951-5771 (home); 972-54-469-1777 (cell)
E-mail: reupaz@netvision.net.il
Web site: http://www.e-prism.org
Yoram Schweitzer
Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow and Director of Program on Terrorism and Low Intensity Conflict, Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University
Fields: Iran and Hezbollah; Lebanon and Hezbollah; Islamic fundamentalism; international terrorism and counter-terrorism; Al-Qaeda and global Jihad; global suicide terrorism
Tel.: 972-3-640-0411; 972-54-727-7474 (cell)
E-mail: yorams@inss.org.il
Web site: www.labat.co.il
Yael Shahar
Affiliation: Director, Database and Internet Project, Institute for Counter-Terrorism, IDC Herzliya
Fields: Cyber terrorism, international terrorist organizations
Tel.: 972-9-792-6447 (office); 972-50-421-7828 (cell)
E-mail: webmaster@ict.org.il
Shabtai Shavit
Affiliation: Chairman and Board of Directors, Institute for Counter-Terrorism, IDC Herzliya; former head of Mossad
Fields: Counter-terrorism
Contact through spokesperson:
Tel.: 972-3-557-2412 (office)
E-mail: pr@idc.ac.il
Dany Shoham
Affiliation: Senior researcher, Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University
Fields: Chemical and biological warfare in the Middle East and worldwide
Tel.: 972-3-696-8953 (office)
E-mail: shoham_d@netvision.net.il

Joshua Teitelbaum
Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University
Fields: Contemporary history of Saudi Arabia and the Arabian Gulf; Palestinian history and politics; Islamic radicalism; inter-Arab affairs
Tel.: 972-9-744-9892 (home); 972--3-640-6448 (office); 972-54-431-2980 (cell)
E-mail: teitelba@post.tau.ac.il
Gabriel Weimann
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Communication, University of Haifa
Fields: Terrorists' use of the Internet; public opinion research; media psychology; interplay between modern international terrorism and the mass media; right-wing extremism in Israel; challenges modern terrorism poses to Israel and other democratic societies
Tel.: 972-4-824-9598 (office); 972-54-487-3713 (cell)
E-mail: weimann@soc.haifa.ac.il
Eyal Zisser
Affiliation: Head of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University; Senior Research Fellow, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University
Fields: History and modern politics of Syria and Lebanon; Hezbollah; Syrian support of Palestinian terror factions; Iranian involvement in anti-Israel terror; Arab-Israeli conflict
Tel.: 972-3-640-9100 (office); 972-54-488-4171 (cell)
E-mail: zisser@post.tau.ac.il
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