David Menashri (Hebrew: דוד מנשרי; born 1944) is an Israeli professor and scholar of modern Iranian history.
[3] David Menashri received his Ph.D. in Middle Eastern history from Tel Aviv University in 1982.
He spent two years in Iran on the eve of the 1979 revolution conducting research in Iranian universities.
Among others, he served as the Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History (1996-2000); the first incumbent of the Parviz and Pouran Nazarian Chair for Modern Iranian Studies (1997-2011), the first such a chair in Israel; Founder and first Director of the Alliance Center for Iranian Studies (2005-2010), the first such center in Israel and one of only few in the world then; Head of Special Programs Unit (2001-2005) and Dean of Special Programs (2005-2009).
[10] Menashri has been active in numerous NGOs, including: Council Member of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (awardee of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize), since 2013;[11] Board Member of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, since 2011; Chairman of the Maccabim Scholarship Foundation, since 1995.