Professional Affiliation

Working Group Coordinator Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS), IDC Herzliya (2017–October 2018); Former director of research, Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS), IDC Herzliya.

Expert Bio

Dr. Colonel ( Res) Shaul Shay served 27 years in the IDF as a paratrooper officer and in the Military Intelligence. Shaul Shay dedicated most of his military career to the intelligence corps. Among his positions : the intelligence officer of an armored brigade during the first Lebanon war ,the intelligence officer of an Armored division , the head of counter terror branch and the intelligence officer of the Southern Command.                                                                   In the years 2007-2009 he was the deputy head of the National Security Council (NSC) of Israel.

Shaul Shay holds M.A and Phd degrees from the Bar Ilan University and he is a lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzeliya  ( IDC).

Shaul Shay was the director of research of the Institute for Policy and Strategy ( 2013 – 2018) and a senior research fellow of the International Policy Institute for counter Terrorism (ICT) at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzeliya (IDC), Israel.

Dr  Shay is the author and the editor of 19 books, 11 of  them were published in the USA and U.K.  His last books are:

Israel and Islamic terror abductions (1986 – 2016), Sussex Academic Publishers, Brighton, U.K.2016.

 Somalia in transition since 2006, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, 2014.

The global jihad and the tactic of terror abductions, Sussex Academic Publishers, Brighton, U.K .2013.