Yehuda Ben Meir is editor of INSS Insight  and director of the National Security and Public Opinion Project at INSS.

A psychologist and an attorney, Dr. Ben Meir served as an assistant professor and chairman of the Department of Psychology at Bar Ilan University. He was a member of the Knesset from 1971 to 1984 and was deputy minister of foreign affairs in the Begin and Shamir governments. His affiliation with the Jaffee Center began in 1984. Dr. Ben Meir is the author of Civil Military Relations in Israel and National Security Decisionmaking: The Israeli Case.

 

Dr. Ben Meir's areas of research are civil-military relations and Israeli public opinion. He is director of the Public Opinion and National Security Project at INSS, and he is the author (with Dafna Shaked) of The People Speak: Israeli Public Opinion on National Security 2005-2007.