Boaz Ganor () is the former dean of the Lauder School of Government and Diplomacy at the Interdisciplinary Center and the current President of

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Biography

Boaz Ganor is the founder and the executive director of the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism, and is a member of Israel’s National Committee for Homeland Security Technologies, of the International Advisory Board of Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies (IDSS) in Singapore, and of the International Advisory team of the Manhattan Institute (CTCT) to the New-York Police Department (NYPD). Ganor chairs the ICT's World Summit on Counter-Terrorism, which is the leading international conference on Counter-Terrorism in the world. Ganor lectures on terrorism and counter-terrorism at the High Command Academic Courses of the

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, as well as at the Lauder School of Government and Diplomacy, and other academic and international forums. He obtained his B.A. in Political Sciences from

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and his M.A. in Political Studies from

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(

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: “Terrorism and Public Opinion in Israel”). His Ph.D. thesis for the Hebrew University was on Israel's counter-terrorism strategy. Ganor served as a consultant to the Israeli government on counter-terrorism. From 1989 to 2003, he was a member of the trilateral

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i- American Committee on

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, established under the Wye Accords. He is the author of numerous articles on counter-terrorism published in Israel and abroad. He served as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the

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during the 2008–2009 academic year.

Published works

*Ganor, Boaz ''The Counter-Terrorism Puzzle: A Guide for Decision Makers'' ( / 1-4128-0602-X) Transaction Publishers, 2007. *Boaz Ganor ''Hypermedia Seduction for Terrorist Recruiting'' (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series: Human and Societal Dynamics) ( / 1-58603-761-7), Ios Pr Inc, 2007

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ganor, Boaz Living people Academic staff of Reichman University Israeli political scientists Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Social Sciences alumni Tel Aviv University alumni Year of birth missing (living people)