Yoram Peri

Prof Emeritus (since 2020) Yoram Peri was the Abraham S. and Jack Kay Chair in Israel Studies, and Director of the Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, the University of Maryland at College Park.

A former political advisor to the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, founder and former head of Chaim Herzog Institute for Media, Politics and Society and professor of Political Sociology and Communication at Tel Aviv University, and former Editor-in-chief of the Israeli daily, Davar. Born in Jerusalem, he earned his B.A. and M.A. in Political Science and Sociology at the Hebrew University and his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. 
In 2002 he was a senior fellow at the US Institute of Peace in Washington DC. A year before he was a Fulbright scholar at the American University’s School of International Service. Earlier he was a visiting professor at Harvard University and Dartmouth College.
In addition to his academic career, Prof. Peri was a journalist and is a political commentator. He published extensively in newspapers and magazines in and outside Israel, and also was an editor and host of TV and radio programs. In the 1970s he was the spokesperson for the Israel Labor Party and its special emissary to Europe. Among his various public positions, Prof. Peri was president of the Association of the editors of Israel’s Daily Newspapers and a member of the Press Council. 

Prof. Peri published extensively on Israeli society, media and politics. Among his publications are Generals in the Cabinet Room(U.S. Institute of Peace Press), The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin (Stanford University Press), and Between Battles and Ballots: Israel Military in Politics (Cambridge University Press). His book Telepopulism: Media and Politics in Israel was published by Stanford University Press in 2004, and in October 2005 he published (in Hebrew) Brothers at War: Rabin's Assassination and the Cultural war in Israel. For this book he was granted the 2006 award by the Presidents and Prime Ministers memorial council, as well as the Israel’s Political Science Association. 

His book, Generals in the Cabinet Room: How the Military Shapes Israeli Policy, was published in May 2006 by the United States Institute of Peace. The book has been selected as an outstanding book and as one of the best of the best by the Association of American University Press, in 2007. His latest book (in Hebrew) Mediatized Wars: The Power Paradox and Israel’s Strategic Dilemma,1977, was awarded by the Israeli Communication Association. 

Among his various public positions, Prof. Peri was president of the Association of the editors of Israel’s Daily Newspapers and a member of the Press Council. From 2011 to 2021 he was the editor of the academic journal Israel Study Review. Since 2017, he is also a senior visiting fellow at the INSS, Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv. 
 

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