Ehud Sprinzak was an Israeli counterterrorism specialist and expert in far-right Jewish groups.

He was a senior lecturer of political science at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University where his research focused on terrorism and religious radicalism. He had been academic director of the Raoul Wallenberg Scholarship Program.

After his fellowship at the Institute of Peace, Sprinzak founded and was dean of the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya .
Ehud Sprinzak also had been a visiting professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University and at the School of International Service at American University.

He was the 1995 recipient of the Gedalia Gal Fellowship from the Association for the Commemoration of Israel's Intelligence Community and was selected as the 1992 Baruch Yekutieli fellow of the Jerusalem Institute for the Study of Israel.
In 1992 Sprinzak was awarded the Landau Prize for best political science book for The Ascendance of Israel's Radical Right.
He was one of the few experts on Israel’s ultra-right who had told then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin that he might face an assassination attempt.

He also wrote Brother Against Brother: Violence and Extremism in Israeli Politics from Altalena to the Rabin Assassination, and was co-editor of Israeli Democracy Under Stress.

Ehud Sprinzak received a doctorate in political science from Yale University.

Ehud Sprinzak succumbed to throat cancer on November 8 2002 at the age of 62. He is survived by his wife, Ricki; four children; and two grandchildren.

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