Jonathan Fine is undergraduate advisor in the Program on Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy at the Raphael Recanati International School and the Lauder Government School at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzlyia, Israel, and a researcher at the International Institute for Counter Terrorism (ICT). He was recently appointed as the academic advisor to the joint program between the IDC and the Maxwell Government School at the University of Syracuse USA. He is a member of the International Counter-Terrorism Academic Community (ICTAC) and the International Center for Study of Radicalization and Political Violence (ICSR) at Kings College, London. Dr. Fine is also a former advisor on arms control and conflict resolution at the IDF strategic division planning branch. He often lectures Elite IDF units and courses such as the IDF air force pilot course, naval officer course, IDF Commando units, and the IDF Tactical Command College. Dr. Fine's work has appeared in Middle East Quarterly and Middle Eastern Studies. He is author of the forthcoming books, The Israeli Governmental System: the Establishment of a Sovereign State, 1947 – 1951, and Holy War in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – a Comparative Analysis: Past and Present.
