Dr. Shaul Shay served as a senior career office in the military intelligence of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and holds the rank of Col. (Res.). He is a graduate of the Israeli National Defense College and completed both MA and PhD at Bar Ilan University in Political Science – International Affairs. Dr. Shay is a lecturer at Bar Ilan University, senior research fellow of the International Policy Institute for Counter Terrorism (ICT) at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzilya and heads the Department of Military History of the IDF.