Yehezkel Dror

Yehezkel Dror (; 12 August 1928 – 1 January 2026) was an Austrian-born Israeli political scientist who was professor emeritus of political science at Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Background Arthur Yehezkel Dror was born in Vienna, Austria in 1928. He immigrated to Mandate Palestine with his family in 1938. He graduated from the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa in 1946.

Dror held a B.A. and Magister Juris from the Hebrew University, and LLM and SJD (doctor of juridical sciences) qualifications from Harvard University.

In 1954, Dror married Rachel Elboim-Dror, an educational researcher, with whom he had three children: Asael, Otniel and Itiel.

Academic career Dror was a faculty member of the Hebrew University's Department of Political Science from 1957 until his retirement, and was also head of its Public Administration division from 1964. He is a pioneering author in the fields of management, policy science, public administration, capacities to govern, leadership and security issues.

Colleague David Levi-Faur considers him to be "one of the most influential scholars in the founding generation of public administration in the world. He is an important voice in connection with promoting planning, prior deployment and prediction in public policy. [...] To a large degree, the world is moving against Dror, which is a pity." He engaged in international consultantship, serving inter alia from 1968 to 1970 as a senior staff member at the American Rand Corporation. He served on the Winograd Commission established to investigate Israel's actions in the 2006 Lebanon War. Design for Policy Sciences, American Elsevier Publishing Company, 1971 Crazy States: A Counterconventional Strategic Problem, Heath Lexington Books, 1971 Policymaking under Adversity, Transaction Books, 1986 The Capacity to Govern: A Report to the Club of Rome, Routledge, 2001 Foreword to Public Policy in Israel: Perspectives and Practices, Dani Korn (ed.), Lexington Books, 2005 Israeli Statecraft: National Security Challenges and Responses, Routledge, BESA Studies in International Security, 2011. " fundamental treatise for public policy studies....a modern classic of continuing importance..." Avant-Garde Politician : Leaders for a New Epoch, Westphalia Press, 2014 For Rulers : Priming Political Leaders for Saving Humanity from Itself, Westphalia Press, 2017 Steering Human Evolution: Eighteen Theses on Homo Sapiens Metamorphosis, Routledge, 2020

Awards and recognition In 1965, Dror received the Rosolio Award, the Israeli annual Civil Service Commission award for contributions to the study and practice of public administration, named after Civil Service Commissioner David (Werner) Rosolio In 2005, he was awarded the Israel Prize, for management.