Gabriel Haritos
Dr. Gabriel Haritos is an adjunct lecturer of Hellenic-Israeli Relations at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is also the coordinator of the Hellenic-Israeli Studies Programme, supported by the B’nai B’rith World Center with the participation of University of Nicosia (Cyprus), Panteion University (Greece) and Ben*Gurion University of the Negev (Israel). Within the framework of this programme, he introduced the area of Hellenic-Israeli Studies in the curricula of the participating Universities by teaching the History of Political Relations Between Cyprus, Israel and Greece. In the upcoming academic year Israel Studies will be introduced as part of the curriculum at Panteion University.
Dr. Haritos is a Research Fellow at the ELIAMEP Mediterranean Programme focusing on the political systems of the Middle Eastern and Northern African countries, in addition to their regional and foreign policies and their relations with the EU, Greece and Cyprus.
As a Research Fellow at Ben-Gurion Research Institute (Israel) and at the Institute of Studies for Politics and Democracy (Cyprus), he examines the historical and contemporary aspects affecting the evolution of Hellenic-Israeli relations both in the past and in the present.
Since 2016 his Op-Eds on Middle Eastern affairs have been regularly published in Cypriot, Greek and international media outlets, while he contributes with analysis and commentary on news radio and television programs in Cyprus, Greece and Israel.
Since April 2022 he has been the Jerusalem correspondent for the Cyprus News Agency, covering the political developments in the MENA region.
His latest monograph “Israel and the Cyprus Question,” (Bloomsbury, 2023) reveals Israeli diplomatic documents which were declassified by the Israel State Archives following his request. The monograph presents new facts that lead to a series of previously unknown events concerning Israel’s policy and views about the Cypriot conflict in the 1950s and 1960s.