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Anat Berko (; born 14 January 1960) is an Israeli criminologist and politician. An expert in the fields of
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, she served as a member of the
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for Likud between 2015 and 2019.


Biography

Berko was born in
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to Jewish parents who had immigrated to Israel from
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, and was the second of six children. After completing her national service, she remained in the
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, serving for a total of 25 years and reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel. She studied psychology, sociology and criminology at Bar-Ilan University and holds a PhD in criminology, her doctorate thesis was about suicide bombers with emphasis on female and child Palestinian suicide bombers. She became a lecturer at the Lauder School of Government of the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, and served as a visiting professor at
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. Nowadays she is a research fellow at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) and lectures at Israel's National Defense College.After sitting with terrorists, a Netanyahu stalwart seeks a Knesset seat
The Times of Israel, 11 March 2015
Her research area includes suicide bombings, and she interviewed
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leader Ahmed Yassin.Likud candidate Anat Berko: Palestinian state would be like Syria
The Jerusalem Post, 9 February 2015


Political career

Prior to the 2015 Knesset elections she was placed 23rd on the Likud list, a slot reserved for a candidate chosen by Netanyahu. She was elected to the Knesset as Likud won 30 seats. In February 2016, she claimed that the term '
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' is borrowed as
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does not have a 'p' sound. In August 2018 she proposed a bill to ban displays of the Palestinian flag, with violators facing up to one year in prison. Berko was moved down to forty-sixth place on the Likud list for the April 2019 elections. Likud won 35 seats, resulting in Berko losing her place in the Knesset. Berko is married to Reuven, an expert on Arab affairs, and has three children.


Books

* ''The Path to Paradise: The Inner World of Suicide Bombers and their Dispatchers'', 2009, Praeger Publishers, 978-1-5979-7364-9 * ''The Smarter Bomb, Women and Children as Suicide Bombers'' 2011,
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, 978-1-4422-1952-6


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Berko, Anat 1960 births Living people Bar-Ilan University alumni George Washington University faculty Academic staff of Reichman University Israeli colonels Israeli criminologists Israeli non-fiction writers Israeli people of Iraqi-Jewish descent Women members of the Knesset Jewish Israeli politicians Likud politicians Members of the 20th Knesset (2015–2019) People from Jerusalem People from Ramat Gan Israeli female military personnel 21st-century Israeli women politicians Israeli women criminologists Scholars of terrorism