Dr Yaacov Falkov

Dr Yaacov Falkov is an Israeli-Latvian historian, an adjunct professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University and Reichmann University in Herzliya, where he teaches history and theory of intelligence, guerrilla warfare and diplomacy. 

He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Institute for the Research of the Methodology of Intelligence (IRMI) at the Israeli Intelligence Community Commemoration and Heritage Center. He is a former senior strategic analyst in the Israeli Prime minister’s office and a former Visiting Scholar at Oxford University, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center and Archive Yad Vashem. 

Dr Falkov is the author and co-author of three books and numerous other publications in English, Hebrew, and Russian on Soviet/Russian cognitive warfare, history and theory of Soviet/East European irregular warfare, diplomacy, and espionage, as well as the anti-Nazi resistance in Eastern Europe. 

His current research interests include: History and theory of intelligence, counterintelligence, diplomacy, guerrilla and psychological warfare; intelligence and the Holocaust; foreign and domestic policies of the Soviet Union/Russia and Northeastern Europe (with special emphasis on the Baltic States and Poland).