Shmuel Bar
Shmuel Bar (born December 6, 1954 ) is an Israeli diplomat, secret service agent and historian.
Life
Bar earned a bachelor's degree in Jewish and Middle Eastern history from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1974, his master's degree from Tel Aviv University in 1984 and his PhD in Middle Eastern history in 1989.
From 1973 to 2003 he worked in the Israeli government, as an intelligence officer in the Israel Defense Forces and in the Prime Minister's office. Most recently, he was first secretary of the Israeli embassy in The Hague from 1998 to 2002.
Bar is director of studies at the Institute for Strategy and Tactics (Merkaz ha-bentehumi) in Herzlia , headed by Daniel Rothschild , and is part of the management team of the annual Herzliya Conference . He is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and was a 2007 Distinguished Koret Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University . He is co-founder and CEO of the software company IntuView Ltd. who developed tools for evaluating documents in Arabic.
Fonts
- The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan. 1998
- Iran: cultural values, self-images and negotiating behavior. 2004
- Jihad ideology in light of contemporary fatwas. 2006
- Warrant for Terror: The Fatwas of Radical Islam and the Duty to Jihad. 2008
Web links
- Dr. Shmuel Bar, Senior Research Fellow ( Memento from July 27, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- Shmuel Bar, Adjunct Fellow at the Hudson Institute, Washington, DC ( June 7, 2008 memento on the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bar, Shmuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli diplomat, secret service agent and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1954 |