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The opening as it read in 2020
Ze'ev Schiff, 1980s Ze'ev Schiff (1 July 1932 in Lille , France – 19 June 2007 in Tel Aviv , Israel ) was an Israeli journalist and military correspondent for Haaretz .1 Schiff moved to Mandatory Palestine with his family in 1935. He studied Middle Eastern affairs and military history at Tel Aviv University . Schiff wrote numerous books, including Israel's Lebanon War and Intifada , both with Ehud Ya'ari , and A History of the Israeli Army: 1874 to the Present . He also served as a military correspondent in Vietnam , the Soviet Union , Cyprus and Ethiopia . Schiff won several prizes, including the Sokolov Journalism Prize, the Amos Lev Prize, and the Sarah Reichenstein Prize. He joined the Haaretz staff in 1955 and became senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1984. He was the chairman of the Military Writers Association, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and an Isaac and Mildred Brochstein Fellow in Peace and Security at the James A. Schiff died in 2007 in Tel Aviv. He is survived by a wife and two children.2
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Ze'ev Schiff (1 July 1932 in France - 19 June 2007 in Tel Aviv , Israel ) was an Israeli journalist and military correspondent for Ha'aretz . Schiff moved to Mandatory Palestine with his family in 1935. He studied Middle Eastern affairs and military history at Tel Aviv University . Schiff wrote numerous books, including Israel's Lebanon War and Intifada , both with Ehud Ya'ari , and A History of the Israeli Army: 1874 to the Present . He also served as a military correspondent in Vietnam , the Soviet Union , Cyprus and Ethiopia . Schiff won several prizes, including the Sokolov Journalism Prize, the Amos Lev Prize, and the Sarah Reichenstein Prize. He joined the Haaretz staff in 1955 and became senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1984. He was the chairman of the Military Writers Association, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and an Isaac and Mildred Brochstein Fellow in Peace and Security at the James A.
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The opening as it stood in 2015
Ze'ev Schiff (1 July 1932 in Lille , France – 19 June 2007 in Tel Aviv , Israel ) was an Israeli journalist and military correspondent for Haaretz . Schiff moved to Mandatory Palestine with his family in 1935. He studied Middle Eastern affairs and military history at Tel Aviv University . Schiff wrote numerous books, including Israel's Lebanon War and Intifada , both with Ehud Ya'ari , and A History of the Israeli Army: 1874 to the Present . He also served as a military correspondent in Vietnam , the Soviet Union , Cyprus and Ethiopia . Schiff won several prizes, including the Sokolov Journalism Prize, the Amos Lev Prize, and the Sarah Reichenstein Prize. He joined the Haaretz staff in 1955 and became senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1984. He was the chairman of the Military Writers Association, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and an Isaac and Mildred Brochstein Fellow in Peace and Security at the James A.
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Ze'ev Schiff ( ; 1 July 1932 – 19 June 2007) was an Israeli journalist and military correspondent for Haaretz . Schiff moved to Mandatory Palestine with his family in 1935. He studied Middle Eastern affairs and military history at Tel Aviv University . Schiff wrote numerous books, including Israel's Lebanon War and Intifada , both with Ehud Ya'ari , and A History of the Israeli Army: 1874 to the Present . He also served as a military correspondent in Vietnam , the Soviet Union , Cyprus and Ethiopia . Schiff won several prizes, including the Sokolov Journalism Prize, the Amos Lev Prize, and the Sarah Reichenstein Prize. He joined the Haaretz staff in 1955 and became senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1984. He was the chairman of the Military Writers Association, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and an Isaac and Mildred Brochstein Fellow in Peace and Security at the James A. Schiff died in 2007 in Tel Aviv.
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The opening as it stood in 2025
Ze'ev Schiff ( Hebrew : זאב שיף ; 1 July 1932 – 19 June 2007) was an Israeli journalist and military correspondent for Haaretz . Schiff moved to Mandatory Palestine with his family in 1935. He studied Middle Eastern affairs and military history at Tel Aviv University . Schiff wrote numerous books, including Israel's Lebanon War and Intifada , both with Ehud Ya'ari , and A History of the Israeli Army: 1874 to the Present . He also served as a military correspondent in Vietnam , the Soviet Union , Cyprus and Ethiopia . Schiff won several prizes, including the Sokolov Journalism Prize, the Amos Lev Prize, and the Sarah Reichenstein Prize. He joined the Haaretz staff in 1955 and became senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1984. He was the chairman of the Military Writers Association, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and an Isaac and Mildred Brochstein Fellow in Peace and Security at the James A. Schiff died in 2007 in Tel Aviv.
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israeli journalist and military correspondent for ha'aretz
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israeli journalist and military correspondent for haaretz
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