Isabella Ginor

Isabella Ginor was born in Ukraine (then USSR), 1948 and since 1967 has resided in Israel, where she completed her studies at Tel Aviv University (DMD, 1982).  In 2001, she was appointed a Associate Fellow of the Truman Institute (through 2007, reappointed as of 2009). Here she launched an innovative research project on the USSR’s military involvement in the Arab-Israeli conflict. In recognition of her findings, she was awarded the Aharon Yariv Memorial Prize for 2004 by Israel's Intelligence Heritage Center.  The book she co-authored with Gideon Remez, Foxbats over Dimona, won the Silver Medal in the inaugural award of the new Book Prize of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and was listed by Foreign Affairs among five "books of the year" in military history  (2008).

This research draws on her experience from her work since 1968 as a writer and specialist on the Soviet Union and its successor republics for the Israeli newspapers Al HaMishmar, HaAretz andYediot Ahronot, as well as Israel Radio and foreign media. She has presented papers at conferences hosted by the Wilson Center’s Cold War History Project (DC), The Cold War Studies Centre at the London School of Economics, The Association for Study of the Middle East and Africa, the US State Department, the World Congress of Middle Eastern Studies, the Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies, the US Association for Israel Studies,the British Academy, the Polish Institute of National Remembrance, and numerous universities in the United States and Europe.

Dr. Ginor is a frequent guest commentator on Israeli and foreign broadcast media and has been an Israel correspondent for the Russian-language broadcasts of the BBC World Service, Radio France International and the Australian SBS network, as well as the Moscow newspaper Vremya Novostey. Her short story collection Metaphor (1989) won prizes from the Jerusalem Foundation and the City of Holon, and she was Visiting Author at the Oxford University Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in 1993.