Dr. Hayim Iserovich

Research Fellow, International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), Reichman University; Deputy Director and Head of Research, Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center; Former Foreign Affairs Reporter and Commentator, Maariv

Dr. Hayim Iserovich has been Deputy Director and Head of Research at The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Israel Intelligence Heritage and Commemoration Center since May 2024. As part of his role, he is responsible for the information center’s publications, mainly focused on studies of the threats against Israel from various terrorist arenas, including Palestinians, Hezbollah, Iran and the Shiite militias, and Syria.

Previously, Dr. Iserovich worked in journalism for twenty years. He served as a foreign affairs reporter and commentator, first for the nrg Maariv website and then in the printed version of Maariv daily newspaper. He has also published articles on foreign and security issues in Israeli magazines, including Israel Defense and Liberal, and has provided commentaries for media outlets in Israel and abroad.

Dr. Iserovich was a member of the advisory committee of SAFE-COMMS, an Israeli-European Union project to formulate a guide for media conduct during terrorist events.

Dr. Iserovich specializes in the areas of international geopolitics, terror financing, global jihad, and terrorism in Northern Ireland. He holds a PhD from Bar-Ilan University. His research dealt with the development of British counter-terrorism doctrine in Northern Ireland from 1968 to 2005 and Israeli doctrine against Palestinian terrorist organizations during the same years.

Notable publications are: Yoram Schweitzer, Aviv Org, and Haim Iserovich, “9/11 Junction – A Journey in the Wake of the Terrorism of Al-Qaeda, ISIS and Their Partners” (in Hebrew), Institute for National Security Studies, 2023, Haim Iserovich, “To Declare and Block: Presidential Order 13224 and its Significance in the Fight against Terrorist Financing” (in Hebrew), research paper for the Ragonis Foundation Fellowship, March 2019. The research won the first prize of the Ragonis Foundation Fellowship in the name of the late Major Eyal Ragonis.