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Shaul Shay ( he, שאול שי; born 1955) is a military historian and former deputy head of the
National Security Council (Israel) The National Security Council (NSC) ( he, המטה לביטחון לאומי ''HaMateh leBitachon Leumi'') is Israel's central body for coordination, integration, analysis and monitoring in the field of national security and is the staff forum on ...
Colonel (Res) Dr Shaul Shay served 27 years in the IDF as a paratrooper officer and in the Military Intelligence. In the 1973 war he served as a paratrooper and in the first Lebanon war in 1982 he was the G2 of an armor brigade. In the 1990s he served as the head of counter terror branch and the intelligence officer of the Southern Command. In the years 2000 – 2007, Dr Shay was the head of the IDF Military History Department. In the years 2007-2009 he was the deputy head of the National Security Council (NSC) of Israel. Shaul Shay holds BA, M.A and Phd degrees from the Bar Ilan University and he is a lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzeliya (IDC). He is a senior research fellow at the International Policy Institute for counter Terrorism (ICT) and former Director of Research at the Institute for Strategy and Policy (IPS) at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel. Shay is the author of twenty books on terrorism, military history and geostrategy and including: * ''The Endless Jihad, the Mujahidin, the Taliban and Ben Laden'', Transaction Publishers, Rutgers University, State University of New Jersey, 2002. * ''The Globalization of Terror, The Challenge of Al-Qaida and the Response of the International Community'', Transaction Publishers, Rutgers University, State University of New Jersey, 2003.  * ''The Shahids, the Islam and the suicide attacks'', Transaction Publishers, Rutgers University, State University of New Jersey, 2004. * The Axis of Evil, Iran, Hizballah and the Palestinian Terror, Transaction Publishers, Rutgers University, State University of New Jersey, 2005. * ''The Terror Triangle of the Red sea, Yemen, Sudan and Somalia'', Transaction Publishers, Rutgers University, State University of New Jersey, 2005. * ''The Islamic Terror and the Balkans'', Transaction Publishers, Rutgers University, State University of new jersey, 2006. * ''Islamic Terror Abductions in the Middle East'', Sussex Academic Publishers, Brighton, U.K.2007. * ''Somalia between Jihad and Restoration'', Transaction Publishers, Rutgers University, State University of New Jersey, 2008. * ''The global jihad and the tactic of terror abductions'', Sussex Academic Publishers, Brighton, U.K.2013. * ''Somalia in transition'', Transaction Publishers, Rutgers University, State University of New Jersey, 2014. * ''Israel and Islamic terror abductions 1986 – 2016'', Sussex Academic Publishers, Brighton, U.K.2017. * ''The Red sea region between war and reconciliation'', Sussex Academic Publishers, Brighton, U.K.2019.


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1955 births Living people Bar-Ilan University alumni Academic staff of Reichman University Israeli colonels Israeli military historians {{Israel-historian-stub