マイケル バー＝ゾウハー（1938年–）は、イスラエルの政治指導者や諜報活動の歴史を研究・執筆する歴史家・小説家、元国会議員。ブルガリアのソフィアに生まれ、1948年にイスラエルへ移住した。エルサレムのヘブライ大学で経済学と国際関係を学び、パリ大学で政治学・国際関係の修士号と博士号を取得。新聞記者、国防相モシェ ダヤンの報道官・顧問を務め、ハイファ大学や米国のエモリー大学でも教えた。イスラエル国会クネセトでは二期にわたり議員を務め、政治家の評伝や諜報史、スパイ小説を執筆している。イスラエルの対外情報機関による秘密作戦をたどるニシム ミシャルとの共著『モサド・ファイル――イスラエル最強スパイ列伝』（英語版 “Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service”）では、アイヒマンの捕獲や核開発をめぐる情報戦などを、歴代指導者や元長官、工作員への取材をもとに描く。また、同じくミシャルとの共著で、建国以来の軍事作戦を取り上げる『秘録イスラエル特殊部隊――中東戦記1948–2014』（英語版 “No Mission Is Impossible: The Death-Defying Missions of the Israeli Special Forces”）では、エンテベ空港での人質救出や敵地への急襲などを通じ、作戦を決断した指導者と現場の兵士たちの行動を追った。イスラエルのソコロフ賞や首相文学賞などを受賞している。
Michael Bar-Zohar (born 1938) is an Israeli historian, novelist, and former member of parliament whose work examines Israeli political leadership and intelligence history. Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, he immigrated to Israel in 1948. He studied economics and international relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and earned master’s and doctoral degrees in political science and international relations at the University of Paris. He worked as a journalist and as spokesman and media adviser to Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, and taught at Haifa University and Emory University. He served two terms in the Knesset and has written political biographies, intelligence histories, and spy novels. Reconstructing covert operations through interviews with political leaders, former intelligence chiefs, and operatives, “Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service,” coauthored with Nissim Mishal, appeared in Japanese as “Mossad File.” It examines operations including the capture of Adolf Eichmann and intelligence campaigns concerning nuclear weapons programs. Following military operations from Israel’s founding onward, “No Mission Is Impossible: The Death-Defying Missions of the Israeli Special Forces,” also coauthored with Mishal, was published in Japanese as “Hiroku Israel Tokushu Butai.” Accounts of the Entebbe hostage rescue, raids into enemy territory, and other missions connect decisions by political and military leaders with the actions of soldiers carrying them out. His honors include Israel’s Sokolov Award and the Prime Minister’s Prize for Literature.
