Ze'ev Iviansky (; 1 December 1923 – 22 December 2022) was an Israeli political scientist and a former lecturer at the department of General History and Russian Studies of the

Hebrew University The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; ) is an Israeli public research university based in Jerusalem. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened on 1 April 1925. It is the second-ol ...

David C. Rapoport David Charles Rapoport (January 7, 1929 – February 10, 2024) was an American Professor Emeritus of Political Science at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) who focused on the study of terrorism. Biography Rapoport received his Ph.D. ...

, "Inside Terrorist Organizations", , Psychology Press, 2001
"Zeev Ivianski"
/ref> Iviansky was born on 1 December 1923. He was the author of the book ''

Individual Terror In leftist terminology, individual terror, a form of revolutionary terror, is the murder of isolated individuals with the goal of promotion of a political movement, of provoking political changes, up to political revolution. Lev Sedov "On the Mos ...

, Theory and Practice'' (1977) and numerous articles on

terrorism Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violence during peacetime or in the context of war aga ...

. He has also made significant contributions to ''1905 - Revolution and Terror'', 1988 (in Hebrew). Iviansky was a member of Lehi. Iviansky died on 22 December 2022, at the age of 99.

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1923 births 2022 deaths Israeli military personnel of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War Israeli Jews Israeli political scientists Scholars of terrorism Russian studies scholars Place of birth missing Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium alumni Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Lehi members Prisoners and detainees of the British military {{polisci-bio-stub