Anat Berko

Dr. Anat Berko, a world-renowned terrorism expert whose research focuses on suicide bombers and their handlers, conducts research for Israel's Counter-Terrorism Team and Israel's National Security Council, and serves as an advisor to senior government officials.

Dr. Berko lectures at the IDC's Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Security. She also conducts counterterrorism lectures for NATO, Congress, the State Department, the FBI, military forces and for a multitude of universities throughout the United States and elsewhere. In 2015, she joined the Knesset as a member of the Likud party.

After a distinguished 25-year career in the military, where she achieved the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, Dr. Berko retired from the Israel Defense Forces in 2003. She holds a Ph.D. in Criminology from Bar-Ilan University and is the author of The Path to Paradise: The Inner World of Suicide Bombers and Their Dispatchers and The Smarter Bomb: Women and Children as Suicide Bombers.

Dr. Berko can be reached by email at anatb@knesset.gov.il or by phone at 02-6408810.