Ze'ev SchiffZe'ev Schiff (1 July 1932 in Lille

Lille

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, France

France

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 - 19 June 2007 in Tel Aviv, Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

) was an Israeli journalist and military correspondent for Ha'aretz.

Schiff moved to Mandatory Palestine with his family in 1935. He studied Middle Eastern affairs and military history at Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University is a public university located in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel. With nearly 30,000 students, TAU is Israel's largest university.-History:...

.

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. He also served as a military correspondent in Vietnam

Vietnam

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, the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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, Cyprus

Cyprus

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 and Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...

. Schiff won several prizes, including the Sokolov Journalism Prize, the Amos Lev Prize, and the Sarah Reichenstein Prize.

He joined the Haaretz

Haaretz

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staff in 1955 and became senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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 in 1984. He was the chairman of the Military Writers Association, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy is a think tank based in Washington, D.C. focused on United States foreign policy in the Middle East. It was established by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in 1985...

 and an Isaac and Mildred Brochstein Fellow in Peace and Security at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University

James Baker Institute

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.

Books

• Wings over Suez (the Israeli Air Force
  Israeli Air Force
  The Israeli Air Force is the air force of the State of Israel and the aerial arm of the Israel Defense Forces. It was founded on May 28, 1948, shortly after the Israeli Declaration of Independence...
  
   during the War of Attrition
  War of Attrition
  The international community and both countries attempted to find a diplomatic solution to the conflict. The Jarring Mission of the United Nations was supposed to ensure that the terms of UN Security Council Resolution 242 would be observed, but by late 1970 it was clear that this mission had been...
  
  ), 1970.
• October Earthquake (1973 Yom Kippur War
  Yom Kippur War
  The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War or October War , also known as the 1973 Arab-Israeli War and the Fourth Arab-Israeli War, was fought from October 6 to 25, 1973, between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria...
  
  )
• War of Deception (1982 Lebanon War
  1982 Lebanon War
  The 1982 Lebanon War , , called Operation Peace for Galilee by Israel, and later known in Israel as the Lebanon War and First Lebanon War, began on 6 June 1982, when the Israel Defense Forces invaded southern Lebanon...
  
  ), 1984.
• Intifada (First Intifada
  First Intifada
  The First Intifada was a Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories. The uprising began in the Jabalia refugee camp and quickly spread throughout Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem....
  
  ), 1990.
• A History of the Israeli Army: 1874 to the Present

External links

• Israel's War with Iran in: Foreign Affairs 85 (November-December 2006)
• Haaretz profile
• BBC-TV obit
• Haaretz obit
• IHT.com obit