Ehud Sprinzak, 62, Studied Israel Far Right, Is Dead
November 12, 2002
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JERUSALEM, Nov. 11 — Ehud Sprinzak, an Israeli counterterrorism specialist and expert in far-right Jewish groups, died on Friday at a hospital near Tel Aviv. He was 62.
The cause was cancer, his colleagues said.
Mr. Sprinzak, a political science professor, was one of the few experts on Israel’s ultra-right who had told former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin that he might face an assassination attempt, these colleagues said.
Mr. Rabin was gunned down after a peace rally in November 1995 by a militant Israeli who opposed the policy of compromise with the Palestinians.
Mr. Sprinzak taught political science at Hebrew University in Jerusalem for 30 years until he founded the Lauder School of Government Policy and Diplomacy, an institute in Herzliya, about a year ago.
The author of five books, Mr. Sprinzak was published widely and was often interviewed by foreign news organizations.
He received a Ph.D. in political science from Yale in 1972, and had been a visiting professor at several institutions in the United States, including American University and Princeton University.
Mr. Sprinzak is survived by his wife, four children, his mother and two grandchildren.