Nachman Tal

Nachman Tal of the INSS in a photo from the INSS website. Accessed 6 December 2012.

Nachman Tal is Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies. He is a former senior official of the General Security Service (GSS).

Education

Nachman Tal received a Ph.D. from the Land of Israel Studies Department, University of Haifa.

Career History

From the INSS website:

Nachman Tal, a former senior official of the General Security Service (GSS), joined the Jaffee Center research staff in 1996 following his retirement from the GSS. He dealt with Arab issues for 40 years within the framework of his service in the GSS, including as head of the GSS Arab section, and as GSS commander of the Gaza Strip and Sinai district. Dr. Tal was a member of the Israeli delegation to the 1991 Madrid Conference, took part in the negotiations with the Palestinian-Jordanian delegation in 1992, and was a member of the Israeli delegation to the peace talks with the Jordanians, which led to the peace agreement that was signed in October 1994.

Publications

Tal, Nachman, Radical Islam in Egypt and Jordan, Sussex Academic Press (Brighton) and Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University, (Tel Aviv), 2005.

Affiliations

• Institute for National Security Studies