Hillel Frisch (

Hebrew Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and ...

: הלל פריש; born 1953) is an Israeli political scientist and professor of Political Science and Middle Eastern History at

Bar-Ilan University Bar-Ilan University (BIU, , ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academic university institution. It has 20,000 ...

. His work focuses on Israeli-Palestinian interactions and military strategies, the political impact of Islam, institutions and the military, the political dynamics of the Israeli Arab community, the

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in Jordan, the Palestinian territories, Egypt, the Jordanian-Palestinian relationship, and

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. Frish earned a BA from

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(1974), an MA in International Relations from

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(1977) and a PhD in Political Science from the

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in 1990. He is also a senior researcher at the

Begin–Sadat Center for Strategic Studies The Begin–Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA Center) is an Israeli think tank affiliated with Bar-Ilan University and supported by the NATO ''Mediterranean Initiative'', conducting policy-relevant research on Middle Eastern and global st ...

Books

* ''Israel's Security and Its Arab Citizens'' (Cambridge University Press, 2011) * ''The Palestinian Military: Between Militias and Armies'' (Routledge, 2008)Asaf Romirowsky Asaf Romirowsky () is an American historian of the Middle East and political commentator. He is the executive director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) and the executive director of the Association for the Study of the Middle East an ...

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