Sheffy Yigal, The Program for Security Studies


Short Curriculum Vitae (highlights):


Academic background:

B.A., The Hebrew University, 1973
M.A., Tel Aviv University, 1988
PhD., Tel Aviv University, 1993


Employment:

1967-1988: IDF military service

1994-present: Teaching at Tel Aviv University (the Program for Security Studies) and Haifa University (Department of Political Science, Program of National security and Department of History of the Middle East)

For the last seven years Academic Coordinator at the Center for Special Studies, in the Memorial of the Fallen of the Israeli Intelligence Community, Glilot. 1994-present: member of the Board of the Israeli Society for Military History.


Major publications (books and major articles):


BOOKS

Desert Ruse: Deception in the Western Desert, 1940-1942. Tel Aviv, 1987, 287 p. [Hebrew].

Officer's Badge: The Training and Education of 'Haganah' Officers. Tel Aviv, 1991, 285 p. [Hebrew].

British Military Intelligence in the Palestine Campaign, 1914-1918. London, Frank Cass, 1997, 360 p.

ARTICLES

"Unconcern at Dawn, Surprise at Sunset: Egyptian Intelligence Appreciation prior to the Sinai Campaign, 1956", Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 5:3 1990, pp. 7-56.

"Institutionalized Deception and Perception Reinforcement: Allenby's Campaigns in Palestine, 1917-1918", Michael Handel (ed.), Intelligence and Military Operations, London, 1990, pp. 173-238.

"The Role of Deception in the Palestine Campaign, 1917-1918", M. Eliav, (ed.), Siege and Distress. Eretz Israel during the First World War, Jerusalem, 1991, pp. 219-233 [Hebrew],

"The Military Dimension of the Gulf War", in Ami Ayalon (ed.), Middle East Contemporary Survey 1991, Boulder, 1993, pp. 63-91.

70 entries on operations and military doctrine, in M. Naor, (ed.), The Hagana Lexicon, Tel Aviv, 1992 [Hebrew].

Teaches in the following subject areas:


The Gallipoli Campaign in the First World War

Intelligence and National Security in Israel

The History of Surprise and Deception in Warfare

Areas of current research interest:


History of the First World War

Military History of the modern Middle East

Intelligence Studies, primarily the history of intelligence

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