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Ze'ev Schiff

1932 – 2007

Israeli journalist

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About Ze'ev Schiff

Lived 1932 – 2007 (aged 74). Ze'ev Schiff was a French journalist, writer and opinion journalist.

Ze'ev Schiff (‎; 1 July 1932 – 19 June 2007) was an Israeli journalist and military correspondent for Haaretz.

Schiff moved to Mandatory Palestine with his family in 1935. He studied Middle Eastern affairs and military history at Tel Aviv University.

Schiff wrote numerous books, including Israel's Lebanon War and Intifada, both with Ehud Ya'ari, and A History of the Israeli Army: 1874 to the Present. He also served as a military correspondent in Vietnam, the Soviet Union, Cyprus and Ethiopia. Schiff won several prizes, including the Sokolov Journalism Prize, the Amos Lev Prize, and the Sarah Reichenstein Prize.

He joined the Haaretz staff in 1955 and became senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1984. He was the chairman of the Military Writers Association, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and an Isaac and Mildred Brochstein Fellow in Peace and Security at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University.

Schiff died in 2007 in Tel Aviv.

Published works Wings over Suez (the Israeli Air Force during the War of Attrition), 1970.

War of Deception (1982 Lebanon War), 1984. (First Intifada)

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Important facts

Birth century
Nationality
Education
Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium
Employers
Haaretz
Awards
Sokolov Award

Contemporaries

People whose lives overlapped Ze'ev Schiff's

Frequently asked questions

Who was Ze'ev Schiff?

Israeli journalist (1933-2007)

When was Ze'ev Schiff born?

Ze'ev Schiff was born on 1 July 1932 in Lille.

When did Ze'ev Schiff die?

Ze'ev Schiff died on 19 June 2007 in Tel Aviv.

What was Ze'ev Schiff's occupation?

Ze'ev Schiff was a journalist, writer and opinion journalist.

What nationality was Ze'ev Schiff?

Ze'ev Schiff was French.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Ze'ev Schiff

· Wikidata: Q1379870

· DBpedia: Ze'ev Schiff

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