Yagil Levy is a professor of political sociology and public policy at the Open University of Israel.  His field of research is the theoretical and empirical aspects of relations between society and the military. Levy has published nine books. His most recent book, Shooting without Crying: The New Militarization of Israel in the 2000s, has been published by Lamda Scholarship - The Open University of Israel Press in 2023.

 

In 2021, Levy was awarded the Morris Janowitz Career Achievement by the (US) Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society. Levy served as President of The European Research Group on Military and Society.