About the Author
369Ephraim Kahanaholds a Ph.D. in international politics. He is profes-
sor of international relations and faculty member at Western Galilee Col-
lege, Acre, Israel, where he chaired the Department of Political Science
from 1997 to 1998. He also teaches international relations, national se-
curity, and intelligence studies in the National Security Program of the
University of Haifa and the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology in
Haifa, where he was named outstanding lecturer. Dr. Kahana is a mem-
ber of the executive committee of the Israeli International Studies Asso-
ciation (IISA). He regularly presents papers at conferences of the IISA
in panels on intelligence studies. In 2004 Dr. Kahana was academic di-
rector for a conference entitled “The War in Iraq and the New Interna-
tional Order,” held on 29 November at Western Galilee College.
Dr. Kahana has published numerous papers on intelligence and na-
tional security issues. His most recent publications are “Early Warning
versus Concept: The Case of the Yom Kippur War 1973,” Intelligence
and National Security(Summer 2002); “Reorganizing Israel’s Intelli-
gence Community,” International Journal of Intelligence and Counter-
intelligence(Fall 2002); and “Analyzing Israeli Intelligence Failures,”
International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence(Summer
2005). Dr. Kahana received his early and secondary education in Haifa.
He obtained his B.A. degree from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem
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