Yehuda Ben Meir

200px|thumb|right|Yehuda Ben Meir of the INSS in a photo from the INSS [http://www.inss.org.il/experts.php?cat=0&incat=&staff_id=8 website]. Accessed 9 November 2012.
Yehuda Ben Meir is currently editor of the Institute for National Security Studies Insight publication and director of the National Security and Public Opinion Project at INSS.'Yehuda Ben Meir', INSS website. He was born in New York, United States in 1939.'Yehuda Ben Meir - Particulars', Knesset website.
==Education==
Ben Meir studied at the Yishuv HaHadash Yeshiva in Tel Aviv; Yeshiva University in New York and Columbia University in New York, earning a Doctorate in Psychology.
==Career History==
*1971 - 1984: Member of the Israeli Knesset representing the National Religious Party.'Knesset Members of the Seventh Knesset', Knesset website. In August 1981 he was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.
==Current Activities==
Ben Meir is currently editor of INSS Insight and director of the National Security and Public Opinion Project at INSS.
==Publications==
*Ben Meir, Yehuda and Bagno-Moldavsky, Olena., 'Vox Populi: Trends in Israeli Public Opinion on National Security 2004-2009', INSS Memorandum, No. 106, November 2010.
*Ben Meir, Yehuda and Bagno-Moldavsky, Olena., 'The Second Intifada and Israeli Public Opinion', Strategic Assessment, Vol. 13, No. 3, October 2010. 
*Ben Meir, Yehuda., 'Testimony before the Turkel Commission', INSS Insight, No. 199, August 16, 2010.
*Ben Meir, Yehuda., 'Public Opinion and the Political Arena' in: Brom, Shlomo and Kurz, Anat, (Editors), Strategic Survey for Israel 2009, Tel Aviv: Institute for National Security Studies, 2009.
*Ben Meir, Yehuda., 'The People's Voice: Results of a Public Opinion Survey on National Security Issues', INSS Insight, No. 114, June 14, 2009.
*Ben Meir, Yehuda., 'Operation Cast Lead: Political Dimensions and Public Opinion', Strategic Assesment, Volume 11, No. 4, February 2009.
*Ben Meir, Yehuda., 'The Elections in Israel: Initial Observations and Coalition Prospects', INSS Insight, No. 94, February 12, 2009.
*Ben Meir, Yehuda. and Elran, Meir., 'Domestic Developments in Israel: Political, Social, and Economic', in The Middle East Strategic Balance 2007-2008 Mark A. Heller, ed., Tel Aviv: Institute for National Security Studies, 2008. 
*Ben Meir, Yehuda. and Shaked, Dafna., 'The Israeli Body Politic: Views on Key National Security Issues', Strategic Assessment, Vol. 10, No. 1, June 2007. 
*Ben Meir, Yahuda. & Shaked, Dafna., 'The People Speak: Israeli Public Opinion on National Security 2005-2007', Strategic Assessment, Volume 10, No. 1, June 2007.
*Ben Meir, Yehuda, 'The New Israeli Agenda', in: Zvi Shtauber and Yiftah S. Shapir, eds., The Middle East Strategic Balance 2005-2006, Sussex Academic Press (Brighton) and Institute for National Security, (Tel Aviv), 2006.
*Ben Meir, Yehuda., 'Israeli Government Policy and the War's Objectives', Strategic Assessment, Vol. 9, No. 2, August 2006.
*Ben Meir, Yehuda, 'The Israeli Elections: Initial Reflections', Tel Aviv Notes, No. 164, April 4 2006.
*Ben Meir, Yehuda, 'The Post-Disengagement Anguish', Strategic Assessment, Vol. 8, No. 3, November 2005.
*Ben Meir, Yehuda, 'The Disengagement: An Ideological Crisis', Strategic Assessment, Vol. 7, No. 4, March 2005.
*Ben Meir, Yahuda. Civil Military Relations in Israel, Columbia University Press, 15 October 1995.
*Ben Meir, Yahuda. National Security Decisionmaking: The Israeli Case (JCSS Study No. 8.), Westview Press, Boulder, CO January 1 1986.
==Affiliations==
*Institute for National Security Studies
*National Religious Party (1971 - 1984)
==Notes==
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