Ephraim Kam

Deputy Head of the Institute for National Security Studies, Ephraim Kam served as a colonel in the Research Division of IDF Military Intelligence until 1993, when he joined the Jaffee Center. Positions he held in the IDF included assistant director of the Research Division for Evaluation and senior instructor at the IDF's National Defense College. He specializes in security problems of the Middle East, strategic intelligence, and Israel's national security issues. His book Surprise Attack: The Victim's Perspective was published by Harvard University Press and was awarded the 1988 prize for best book on intelligence matters from the National Intelligence Study Center, Washington, D.C. He is also the author of From Terror to Nuclear Bombs: The Significance of the Iranian Threat (2004)and A Nuclear Iran: What Does it Mean, and What Can be Done (2007).   Dr. Kam specializes in security problems of the Middle East, strategic intelligence, and Israel's national security issues.