Yoram Peri (Hebrew: יורם פרי; born 1944) is a professor emeritus[1] at the University of Maryland, College Park, in the U.S., where he held the Abraham and Jack Kay Chair in Israel Studies, and established and directed the Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies at the University of Maryland.

He served as editor-in-chief of the Israeli daily newspaper, Davar; political advisor to the late Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, and is a public activist.

Peri began his journalism career as a cub reporter for the children's weekly, Ha'aretz Shelanu, and as a youth correspondent for Ma'ariv L'Noar.

Although the editorial innovations changed the newspaper and made it more critical and updated, poor management by the publisher, the Histadrut, (Israel's Workers Federation) could not end the deep financial deficits.

Over the years, Peri has written various newspapers, journals and internet sites, presented radio and television programs, and published in international media platforms.

He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and served on the advisory committee to the State Comptroller.

In 1995, together with Shira Herzog, then head of the Kahanoff Foundation, he founded the Maof Fellowships,[5] a program designed to increase the number of Arab-Israeli faculty members in Israeli academic institutions.

Peri studied under Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt, Moshe Lissak, and Dan Horowitz, and examined the involvement of the IDF in Israeli politics.

His research refuted the view, widely held until the early 1970s, that Israel embodied a model according to which the role of the military was instrumental and uninvolved in politics.

Peri's research demonstrated that Israel exhibits a different, dual model in which the military, although subordinate to the civilian government, is, in fact, an active political player.

After the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, Peri researched the murder, the societal and political trends that preceded it, and issues of commemoration and collective memory.

In 2017, the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv published Peri's book, Mediatized Wars: The Paradox of Power and Israel's Strategic Dilemma (Hebrew).

His book, Generals in the Cabinet Room: How the Military Shapes Israel Policy, published in 2006, received an award for excellence from the Association of American University Presses.