Yogev Elbaz is a postdoctoral researcher at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. He has a BA from the Hebrew Universities in Jewish History and Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, and an MA from that university in an individual program in Israel Studies. His doctoral dissertation, titled "Israel's Involvement in Lebanon (1969-1982) as a Test Case of Its Middle-Eastern Policy", examined Israeli policy in Lebanon in the aforementioned years from the broad perspective of its policy in the Middle East in general. His studies address Israel's clandestine relations in the region, in the Middle-Eastern system and in the Israeli mythology. Elbaz has founded and coordinated the Israel Studies Forum at the Hebrew University, and serves as the editor of Basics: Journal of the IDF Department of History.

Courses taught: 

Lebanon: Between Ethnic and Pan-Arab Politics

Recent publications:

 

Elbaz, Yogev. 2025. "An Unknown Crossroads: Israel, the Palestinians and the Christians in Lebanon (1968-1970)". Middle Eastern Studies 61 (5): 682-693..

Elbaz, Yogev. 2022. "Beyond the Periphery: Israel's Intervention in the Yemen Civil War in 1960s". Israel Studies, 27 (1): 84-107.

Elbaz, Yogev. 2021. "Letters Flying in the Air: The Book Such were Our Fighters as Reflecting and Shaping Israeli Commemoration in Its Infancy". In Deceptive Past: Myth, History and Memory in Islamic Societies and in Israeli Society, edited by Israel Gershoni and Mair Hatina, 397-441. Tel Aviv: Resling (in Hebrew).