David Tal (born 1964) is an Israeli historian and professor. Since 2009, he has been the Kahanoff Chair in Israeli Studies at the

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. He is an expert on Israel's security and diplomatic history, as well as U.S.

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policy.

Biography

Tal completed all his undergraduate and graduate study in history at

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

, receiving his BA in 1986, his MA in 1990, and his PhD in 1995. He was an instructor in the department of history at Tel Aviv University from 1994–1996 and a lecturer in that department and in the Program of Security Studies from 1996–2005. He was a

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research fellow from 2000–2002. Since 2005, Tal has been a visiting professor at

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, Georgia (2005–2006, 2008–2009),

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(2006–2008). in 2009 he joined the history department at the University of Calgary as a professor and the Kahanoff Chair in Israeli Studies.

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. i(2009–present). in 2014 he moved to the University of Sussex, UK, where he is holding the Yossi Harel Chair in Modern Israel Studies.

Selected bibliography

Books

* (with Anat Kurz and Maskit Burgin) * * * *

Articles

* Tal, David (1995). "The American-Israeli Security Treaty: Sequel or means to the relief of Israeli-Arab tension, 1954–1955". ''Middle Eastern Studies'' 31:4, pp. 828–848. * Tal, David (February 1996). "Israel's Road to the 1956 War". ''International Journal of Middle East Studies'', 67. * Tal, David (1998). "Israel's Conception of Routine Security Measures". Ben Gurion University of the Negev. * Tal, David (June 2000). "Symbol or Substance? Israel's campaign for U.S. Hawk missiles, 1960–1962". ''International History Review'', 22:2. * Tal, David (Spring/Summer 2000). "The Forgotten War: The Jewish-Palestinian strife in Palestine, December 1947–May 1948". ''Israel Affairs'', 6:3–4. * * Tal, David (2004). "The Battle over Jerusalem: The Israeli-Jordanian War, 1948", in Alon Kadish (ed.), ''Israel's War of Independence Revisited'' (Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense, 2004), pp. 307–339. * Tal, David (Autumn 2005). "The 1948 War in Palestine Historiography: The missing dimension". ''Journal of Israeli History'' 24:2, pp. 183–202. * Tal, David (Fall 2008). "From the Open Skies Proposal of 1955 to the Norstad Plan of 1960: A plan too far". ''Journal of Cold War Studies'', 10:4, pp. 66–93.

References

External links

David Tal curriculum vitae
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tal, David (historian) Historians of Israel Israeli historians Jewish historians Israeli Jews 1960s births Living people Tel Aviv University alumni