Gideon Remez (Hebrew: גדעון רמז, born 2 June 1946) is an Israeli journalist and an analyst on post-Soviet affairs.
Biography
Gideon Remez was born in Tel Aviv on June 2, 1946. His father,
Aharon Remez
Aluf Aharon Remez ( he, אהרן רמז, 8 May 1919 – 3 April 1994) was an Israeli civil servant, politician and diplomat, and the second commander of the Israeli Air Force.
Biography
Born in Tel Aviv in 1919, Remez's father David was Israel's ...
, was an Israeli diplomat and military officer who served as the second commander of the
Israeli Air Force
The Israeli Air Force (IAF; he, זְרוֹעַ הָאֲוִיר וְהֶחָלָל, Zroa HaAvir VeHahalal, tl, "Air and Space Arm", commonly known as , ''Kheil HaAvir'', "Air Corps") operates as the aerial warfare branch of the Israel Defense ...
. His grandfather,
David Remez
David Remez ( he, דוד רמז, 1886 – 19 May 1951) was an Israeli politician, the country's first Minister of Transportation, and a signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence.
Biography
Remez was born David Drabkin in the village o ...
, was an Israeli politician who was a signatory to the
Israeli Declaration of Independence
The Israeli Declaration of Independence, formally the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel ( he, הכרזה על הקמת מדינת ישראל), was proclaimed on 14 May 1948 ( 5 Iyar 5708) by David Ben-Gurion, the Executive ...
.
Career
Remez headed the foreign news desk at the Voice of Israel. He is a fellow of the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...
.
He was a recipient, joint with
Isabella Ginor
Isabella Ginor (Изабелла Гинор, איזבלה גינור) is an Israeli journalist and an analyst on post-Soviet affairs.
Biography
Isabella Ginor was born in Ukraine and immigrated to Israel in 1967. She studied at Tel Aviv Universit ...
, of the 2008 Book Prized (Silver Medal) by the
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP or TWI, also known simply as The Washington Institute) is a pro-Israel American think tank based in Washington, D.C., focused on the foreign policy of the United States in the Near East.
WINE ...
for the book ''Foxbats over Dimona''.
In 1993 he received also the ''Nahum Sokolov Award'' ("Israeli Pulitzer Prize”) for broadcast journalism. In 1999 he received the ''Joint Distribution Committee’s Boris Smolar Award'' for coverage of Israel-Diaspora relations . In 2000 he received the honorable mention in the B'nai B'rith Wolf Matsdorf Journalism Awards.
Publications
* 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 J. 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” (Hebrew). Paper presented at a conference at Haifa University, November 2006, forthcoming in a book of the conference proceedings, 2009.
* "Un-Finnished Business: Archival Evidence Exposes the Diplomatic Aspect of the USSR's Pre-Planning for the Six-Day War," Cold War History 6:3 (August 2006).
* "The Spymaster, the Communist, and Foxbats over Dimona: The Motive for the USSR's Instigation of the Six-Day War," Israel Studies 11:2 (Summer 2006).
* "The Six-Day War as a Soviet Initiative: New Evidence and Methodological Issues," MERIA12: 3 (September 2008)
* "Too Little, Too Late: The CIA and US Counteraction of the Soviet Initiative in the Six-Day War”
orthcoming in a special edition of Intelligence & National Security, 2010
See also
*
Six-Day War
The Six-Day War (, ; ar, النكسة, , or ) or June War, also known as the 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab world, Arab states (primarily United Arab Republic, Egypt, S ...
References
External links
How Six Day war almost led to Armageddonbiography of Gideon Remez
Israeli journalists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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