Gideon Remez

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Gideon Remez ( Hebrew גדעון רמז; * June 2, 1946 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli journalist with US citizenship.

Life

Gideon Remez is the son of Aharon Remez and grandson of David Remez . He served as a paratrooper in the Israeli army from 1964 to 1966 . He experienced and described the Six Day War in 1967 and the Yom Kippur War in 1973 as a front-line reporter . After a bachelor's degree in Hebrew language and literature and philosophy at the University of Jerusalem in 1973 , Remez obtained a master's degree in the history of American civilization at Brandeis University / Massachusetts in 1978 .

Remez worked as a radio and print media journalist for 36 years. He produced news for Kol Israel and was a correspondent for the Jerusalem Post and a regular contributor to the media in the United States, Israel, Europe and Australia. From 2003 to 2005 he taught news journalism at Sapir Academic College in Sderot .

Awards

In 1993 he received the Nachum Sokolow Prize , in 1999 he was awarded the Joint Distribution Committee's Boris Smolar Award and in 2000 the B'nai B'rith Wolf Matsdorf Journalism Awards . In 2008 he and Isabella Ginor were awarded the silver medal of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy for the book Foxbats over Dimona .

Fonts

  • Foxbats over Dimona: The Soviets' Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War (Yale University Press, 2007).
  • The Origins of a Misnomer: The "Expulsion of Soviet Advisers" from Egypt in 1972 . In: Nigel Ashton (ed.): The Cold War in the Middle East: Regional Conflict and the Superpowers 1967-73 , London: Routledge-LSE, 2007.
  • The USSR Sets Precedents: Military Involvement and Nuclear Threat in the 1956 Crisis (Heb.), Haifa University, 2009.
  • Un-Finnished Business: Archival Evidence Exposes the Diplomatic Aspect of the USSR's Pre-Planning for the Six-Day War, Cold War History, (2006).
  • The Spymaster, the Communist, and Foxbats over Dimona: The Motive for the USSR's Instigation of the Six-Day War, Israel Studies, (2006).
  • The Six-Day War as a Soviet Initiative: New Evidence and Methodological Issues, MERIA (2008)
  • Too Little, Too Late: The CIA and US Counteraction of the Soviet Initiative in the Six-Day War , Intelligence & National Security, 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Inaugural Washington Institute Book Prizes Awarded
personal data
SURNAME Remez, Gideon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Tel Aviv