Ze'ev Schiff (‎; 1 July 1932 – 19 June 2007) was an Israeli journalist and military correspondent for ''

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''. Schiff moved to

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with his family in 1935. He studied Middle Eastern affairs and military history at

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. Schiff wrote numerous books, including ''Israel's Lebanon War'' and ''Intifada'', both with

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, and ''A History of the Israeli Army: 1874 to the Present''. He also served as a military correspondent in

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, the

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and

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. Schiff won several prizes, including the Sokolov Journalism Prize, the Amos Lev Prize, and the Sarah Reichenstein Prize. He joined the ''

'' staff in 1955 and became senior associate of the

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in 1984. He was the chairman of the Military Writers Association, a fellow at the

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and an Isaac and Mildred Brochstein Fellow in Peace and Security at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. Schiff died in 2007 in Tel Aviv.

Published works

* ''Wings over Suez'' (the

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during the

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), 1970. * * ''War of Deception'' (

1982 Lebanon War The 1982 Lebanon War, also called the Second Israeli invasion of Lebanon, began on 6 June 1982, when Israel invaded southern Lebanon. The invasion followed a series of attacks and counter-attacks between the Palestine Liberation Organization ...

), 1984. * (

First Intifada The First Intifada (), also known as the First Palestinian Intifada, was a sustained series of Nonviolent resistance, non-violent protests, acts of civil disobedience, Riot, riots, and Terrorism, terrorist attacks carried out by Palestinians ...

) *

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