November 12, 2002
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JERUSALEM, Nov. 11 —
Ehud Sprinzak, an Israeli
counterterrorism specialist and expert in far-right
Jewish groups, died on Friday at a hospital near Tel
Aviv. He was 62.
The cause was cancer,
his colleagues said.
Mr. Sprinzak, a political
science professor, was one of the few experts on Israel's
ultra-right who had told former
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin that he might face an assassination
attempt, these colleagues said.
Mr. Rabin was gunned
down after a peace rally
in November 1995 by a
militant Israeli who opposed the policy of compromise
with the Palestinians.
Mr. Sprinzak taught political
science at Hebrew University in Jerusalem
for 30 years until he founded the Lauder School of Government Policy and Diplomacy,
an institute in Herzliya,
about a year ago.
The author of five books,
Mr. Sprinzak was published widely and was often interviewed by foreign news
organizations.
He received a Ph.D. in political
science from Yale in 1972, and had been a visiting professor at several
institutions in the United States, including American
University and Princeton University.
Mr. Sprinzak is survived
by his wife, four children, his mother and two grandchildren.
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