Anat Berko
| Anat Berko | |
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| Date of birth | 14 January 1960 |
| Place of birth | Jerusalem, Israel |
| Knessets | 20 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 2015– | Likud |
Anat Berko (Hebrew: ענת ברקו, born 14 January 1960) is an Israeli criminologist and politician. She is an expert in the fields of counter-terrorism.
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Biography[edit]
Berko was born in Jerusalem to Jewish parents who had immigrated to Israel from Iraq, and was the second of six children.[1] After completing her national service, she remained in the Israel Defense Forces, serving for a total of 25 years and reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel.[1] She studied psychology, sociology and criminology at Bar-Ilan University and holds a PhD in criminology, her doctorate thesis was about suicide bombers with emphasis on female and child Palestinian suicide bombers. She became a lecturer at the Lauder School of Government of the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, and served as a visiting professor at George Washington University.[2] Nowadays she is a research fellow at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) and lectures at Israel's National Defense College.[3] Her research area includes suicide bombings, and she interviewed Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin.[1]
Prior to the 2015 Knesset elections she was placed 23rd on the Likud list,[4] a slot reserved for a candidate chosen by Binyamin Netanyahu.[5] She was elected to the Knesset as Likud won 30 seats.[6]
Berko is married to Reuven, an expert on Arab affairs, and has three children.[3]
Books[edit]
- The Path to Paradise: The Inner World of Suicide Bombers and their Dispatchers, 2009, Praeger Publishers, 978-1-5979-7364-9
- The Smarter Bomb, Women and Children as Suicide Bombers 2011, Rowman & Littlefield, 978-1-4422-1952-6
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Likud candidate Anat Berko: Palestinian state would be like Syria The Jerusalem Post, 9 February 2015
- ^ Knesset website
- ^ a b After sitting with terrorists, a Netanyahu stalwart seeks a Knesset seat The Times of Israel, 11 March 2015
- ^ Likud list Central Elections Committee
- ^ Israel election updates / Likud primary results are in: Erdan, Edelstein get top spots Haaretz, 1 January 2015
- ^ Final Unofficial* results of the Elections for the Twentieth Knesset Central Elections Committee
External links[edit]
- Anat Berko on the Knesset website
- 1960 births
- Living people
- Bar-Ilan University alumni
- Counter-terrorism theorists
- George Washington University faculty
- Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya faculty
- Israeli colonels
- Israeli criminologists
- Israeli Jews
- Israeli non-fiction writers
- Israeli people of Iraqi-Jewish descent
- Women Members of the Knesset
- Jewish Israeli politicians
- Likud politicians
- Members of the 20th Knesset (2015–)
- People from Jerusalem
- People from Ramat Gan
- Women in the Israeli military
- 21st-century women politicians
