Ze'ev Schiff

Ze'ev Schiff

Ze'ev Schiff (1 July 1932 in France - 19 June 2007 in Tel Aviv, Israel) [ [http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/jul/23/guardianobituaries.israel The Guardian Obituary] ] was an Israeli journalist and military correspondent for "Ha'aretz".

Schiff moved to Mandatory Palestine with his family in 1935. He studied Middle Eastern affairs and military history at Tel Aviv University. [ [http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/21/news/obits.php Obituary: Zeev Schiff, Israeli writer and military analyst - International Herald Tribune ] ]

Schiff wrote numerous books, including "Israel's Lebanon War" and "Intifada", both with Ehud Ya'ari, and "A History of the Israeli Army: 1874 to the Present". He also served as a military correspondent in Vietnam, the Soviet Union, Cyprus and Ethiopia. Schiff won several prizes, including the Sokolov Journalism Prize, the Amos Lev Prize, and the Sarah Reichenstein Prize.

He joined the "Haaretz" staff in 1955 and became senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1984. He was the chairman of the Military Writers Association, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and an Isaac and Mildred Brochstein Fellow in Peace and Security at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University.

Books

* " [http://www.nytimes.com/cfr/world/20061101faessay_v85n6_schiff.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print Israel's War with Iran] " in: Foreign Affairs 85 (November-December 2006)
* "October Earthquake and the Yom Kippur War"
* "Israel's Lebanon War"
* "Intifada"
* "A History of the Israeli Army: 1874 to the Present"

References

External links

* [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/872848.html Haaretz profile]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5222064.stm BBC-TV obit]
* [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/872855.html Haaretz obit]
* [http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/21/news/obits.php IHT.com obit]


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