Yoram Schweitzer

Yoram Schweitzer is a Senior Research Fellow at Israel's Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). He is the Director of the Institute's Terrorism and Low-Intensity Warfare Research Project, and is a senior consultant to NATO on matters of counterterrorism. Schweitzer's areas of expertise include, but are not limited to, Al Qaeda and its affiliates—the so-called "Afghan Alumni"--and state sponsored terrorism. Additionally, Schweitzer is regarded as one of Israel's foremost authorities on suicide terrorism, particularly female suicide terrorism.