Ephraim Kam

Ephraim Kam of the INSS in a photo from the INSS website. Accessed 9 November 2012.

Ephraim Kam is deputy head of the Institute for National Security Studies (Israel) and a former colonel in the Research Division of the Israel Defense Forces Military Intelligence unit.

Education

International Relations (PhD) from Harvard University, USA.

Career History

• 1995: Deputy Head of the Institute for National Security Studies.
• 1993: Retires from IDF and joins the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, now the Institute for National Security Studies based at Tel-Aviv University.
• Pre-1993: Assistant Director of the Research Division for Evaluation (IDF) and senior instructor at the IDF's National Defense College.

Current Activities

Kam has been the Deputy Director of the Institute for National Security Studies since 1995.

Publications

• Kam, Ephraim, Nuclear Iran: What Does it Mean, and What Can be Done, Institute for National Security Studies, 2007.
• Kam, Ephraim, From Terror to Nuclear Bombs: The Significance of the Iranian Threat, The Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, 2004 (in Hebrew).
• Kam, Ephraim, The Middle East Military Balance 1994-1995, Tel Aviv: The Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies - Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Post, 1996.
• Kam, Ephraim, The Changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: Implications on the Middle East, Tel Aviv: The Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, May 1991 (in Hebrew).
• Kam, Ephraim, Surprise Attack: The Victim's Perspective, Harvard University Press, 15 November 1988.

Affiliations

• Institute for National Security Studies (1995 - present)
• Israel Defense Forces
• Tel Aviv University