Ze'ev Schiff

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Ze'ev Schiff (1933-2007) (Hebrew: זאב שיף) was a journalist, author and military correspondent for the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz.

Schiff was born in France in 1933. He moved to Mandatory Palestine with his family in 1935. He studied Middle Eastern affairs and military history at Tel Aviv University. ^[1]

Schiff wrote numerous books, including Israel's Lebanon War and Intifada, both with Ehud Ya'ari, and A History of the Israeli Army: 1874 to the Present. Paul Reynolds, a World Affairs correspondent, called him "the most respected military analyst in Israel". [1] His books have been published in Israel, the United States and France, and translated into several languages, including Arabic and Russian.

He also served as a military correspondent in Vietnam, the Soviet Union, Cyprus and Ethiopia, and was invited by several countries to visit their armies. Schiff won several journalism prizes, including the Sokolov Journalism Prize (in 1975), Amos Lev Prize (for military articles) and Sarah Reichenstein Prize (for interviews).

He joined the Haaretz staff in 1955 [2] and became senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1984. For many years, he was the chairman of the Military Writers Association. He was also fellow of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy 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 on June 19, 2007 in Tel Aviv, Israel. The cause of death was cardiac arrest following chronic heart problems. He is survived by his wife Sara and two sons, Eyal and Hadar.^[2]

[edit] Books

Israel's War with Iran. in: Foreign Affairs 85 (November-December 2006): pp. 23-31 Reprint of the article in The New York Times December 4, 2006
October Earthquake and the Yom Kippur War
Israel's Lebanon War
Intifada
A History of the Israeli Army: 1874 to the Present