Prof. Gadi Heimann

Strategy, Diplomacy, and Security

Prof. Gadi Heimann is an assistant professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a lecturer in the Department of Strategy, Diplomacy, and Security at Shalem College. An expert on Israel-French relations under the presidency of Charles de Gaulle and the author of four books on the subject, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto and at the School of Political Science at the University of Haifa. Heimann has received the Prat Prize, the Golda Meir Lectureship Award, and the Milken Prize for Excellent teachers from the Hebrew University, and was recognized for excellence in teaching for seven consecutive years.

Selected Publications

The End of a Beautiful Friendship? France-Israel Relations under De Gaulle's Presidency (Jerusalem: Magnes, 2016) [Hebrew].

Franco-Israeli Relations, 1958–1967 (London: Routledge, 2017).

Israel’s Path to Europe: The Negotiations for a Preferential Agreement, 1957–1970, with Lior Herman (London: Routledge, 2019).

Fear, Regret and Wishful Thinking: Why Leaders and Nations Choose War? (Tel Aviv: Dvir, 2022) [Hebrew].

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