Yoram Peri (PhD, London School of Economics) has published extensively on Israeli society, media, and politics. Among his publications are The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin (Stanford University Press, 2004) and Between Battles and Ballots: Israel Military in Politics (Cambridge University Press, 1983). His latest book is Generals in the Cabinet Room: How the Military Shapes Israeli Policy (United States Institute of Peace, 2006). A former political advisor to the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Dr. Peri founded and is the former head of the Chaim Herzog Institute for Media, Politics, and Society.