Jacob Landau (academic)

Jacob M. Landau (20 March 1924 – 12 November 2020) was Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science (in the field of Middle Eastern Studies) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

They settled in Tel Aviv, where he studied at the Herzliya Gymnasium, ending his school career in 1942.

During that year he was also visiting lecturer in modern Middle East history at Brandeis University.

In 1958 he joined the Hebrew University's department of political science where he lectured until 1993 when he left as a full professor emeritus.

Research prizes by the Ben Zvi Institute (Jerusalem), Itzhak Grünbaum (Tel-Aviv), silver medals from Boğaziçi University (Istanbul) and the Turkish Historical Society (Ankara), and the Israel Prize in Middle Eastern Research (2005).