Tom Segev (Hebrew: תום שגב; born March 1, 1945) is an Israeli historian, author and journalist.

His mother was a photographer; his father, an architect and toy manufacturer, was killed on guard duty in Jerusalem in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

[6] In One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate, a New York Times Editor's Choice Best Book (2000) and a recipient of a National Jewish Book Award in the Israel category,[7] Segev describes the era of the British Mandate in Palestine (1917–1948).

Still, large segments of the Israeli population had a real fear that the Egyptians and Syrians would eliminate them.

According to Oren, Segev did not properly consider the domestic politics of Arab countries or the military support they had received from the USSR.