A veteran of Israeli intelligence, Danny Orbach is a senior lecturer in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He studied for more than ten years in Tel Aviv, Tokyo and Harvard Universities. As a historian, commentator and political blogger, he has published extensively on German, Japanese, Chinese, Israeli and Middle Eastern history, with a special focus on military resistance, disobedience, rebellions and political assassinations.  

Senior lecturer for history and East Asian Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Education

Harvard University, Cambridge MA
Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on US-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (2015-2016).
PhD in history (modern Japan)
Dissertation: "Culture of Disobedience: Rebellion and Defiance in the Modern Japanese Army, 1860-1931" (2009-2015)

Tokyo University – Monbusho scholarship research student, 2007-9

Tel Aviv University - BA, summa cum laude, General History and East Asian Studies, 2006

Azrieli Research Fellowship, 2016-2019

Harvard Horizons Scholar, 2014. A special program of Harvard University, in which eight students from different disciplines are being selected annually to presented their projects to a larger audience.
Harvard University, Derek Bok Center Distinction in Teaching, 2014 and 2012
External Fellow, International History Institute, Boston University (2012 to present)
Japan Foundation Research Fellow, 2012 -13
Graduate Student Associate, Davis Center for Russian and European Studies, Harvard University, 2010-11
Yaavetz's Award for outstanding students, History Department, Tel Aviv University, 2006
Wolf Foundation Award for outstanding students, 2006
Japanese Education Ministry (Monbusho) scholarship for research students, 2006
Rector's Award for academic excellence, Tel Aviv University, 2005
Bosh Foundation Award for Jewish studies, 2004