Meyrav Wurmser

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Meyrav Wurmser is a neoconservative and an Israeli scholar of the Arab world. She is married to David Wurmser, Middle East Adviser to US Vice President Dick Cheney. She is also a member of the conservative US think tank, the Hudson Institute.

Wurmser wrote her Ph.D. thesis on Revisionist Zionism behind the Herut and Likud parties, and received her doctorate in political science at George Washington University.[1] She went on to teach political science at Johns Hopkins University and the US Naval Academy.[1]

In 1996, Wurmser participated in a study that led to the A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm report presented to Likud party leader and then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Other study participants included Richard Perle, David Wurmser, and Douglas Feith.

From 1998 to 2001, Meyrav was a co-founding member and Executive Director Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) together with Yigal Carmon.

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  1. ^ a b Meyrav Wurmser profile, Benador Associates. Retrieved February 16, 2007.

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