Colonel (Res) Dr Shaul Shay served 27 years in the IDF as a paratrooper officer and in the Military Intelligence. In the 1973 war he served as a paratrooper and in the first Lebanon war in 1982 he was the G2 of an armored brigade. In the 1990s he served as the head of the counter-terror branch and the intelligence officer of the Southern Command.
In the years 2000 – 2007 he was the head of the IDF Military History Department. In the years 2007-2009 he was the deputy head of the National Security Council (NSC) of Israel.
Shaul Shay holds M.A and Phd degrees from the Bar Ilan University and he is a lecturer at the Reichman University, Herzliya. Shaul Shay was the director of research at the Institute for Policy and Strategy and a senior research fellow of the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) at the Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel.
Dr Shay is the author and the editor of 20 books, 12 of which were published in the USA and U.K. His last books are:
The Red Sea region between war and reconciliation, Sussex Academic Publishers, Brighton, U.K, 2019.
Israel and Islamic Terror Abductions (1986 – 2016) ,Sussex Academic Publishers, Brighton, U.K.2016.
Somalia in transition since 2006, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, 2014.
The global jihad and the tactic of terror abductions, Sussex Academic Publishers, Brighton, U.K. 2013.
