Members of the commission to re-examine the attack on the Israeli Olympic team

Prof. Dr. Shlomo Shpiro

Shlomo Spiro is the Director of the Europa Institute and holder of the Paterson Chair in Security and Intelligence at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel.

Professor Spiro specialises in the history of intelligence services in Israel and Europe; in Palestinian and Islamist terrorism; and in counter-terrorism. He has conducted extensive research on Palestinian terrorism in the 1970s, with a particular focus on the 1972 attack on the Israeli Olympic team, and on crisis communication in the response to terrorism.