This unique work focuses on the motivations of suicide bombers, especially women and children and those who dispatch them. As a woman and a mother, Anat Berko was able to win the trust of imprisoned bombers and speak with them intimately. Entering Israel’s most heavily secured cells, she met with female and adolescent would-be suicide bombers and their dispatchers, lawyers, and interrogators.  Anat Berko, Ph.D, a Lt. Col. (Res) in the Israel Defense Forces, conducts research for the National Security Council, and is a research fellow at the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism at the Interdisciplinary Center in Israel. She was a visiting professor at George Washington University and has written two books about suicide bombers. “The Path to Paradise,” and the recently released, “The Smarter Bomb: Women and Children as Suicide Bombers” (Rowman & Littlefield) 

February 4 at 7PM at Magen David Sephardic Congregation

For Information contact: 301-770-6818 or office@magendavidsephardic.org

​February 5 at ​Noon at the Library of Congress

For more information, contact Gail Shirazi at 202-707-9897, gshi@loc.gov or Galina at 202-707-8814 gtev@loc.gov