Kobi Michael is a senior research fellow at INSS. Among his primary research interests are peace and war studies; strategy; national security; civil-military relations; socio-military relations; peace maintenance; and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Dr. Michael served as the deputy director general and head of the Palestinian desk at the Ministry for Strategic Affairs. He was a member of the faculty at Ben Gurion University (2008-2011), a senior faculty member at Ariel University (2013-2015), and a visiting professor at Northwestern University in Illinois (2006-7).

He has published widely in his field - including 20 books and monographs and over 100 articles and chapters in books and hundreds of op-eds and policy papers. He has been awarded several academic prizes, among them, the Yariv Prize, the Tshetshik Prize, the Yitzhak Sadeh Prize, and the Israeli Association for Political Science Prize, awarded for the best book of 2008-9. Among his most recent books:

• Six Days, Fifty Years - The June 1967 War and Its Aftermath (2018)

• Special Operation Forces in the 21st Century - Perspectives from the Social Sciences (2017)

• The Arab World on the Road to State Failure (2017)

• The IDF Strategy in the Perspective of National Security (Hebrew, 2016)