Rita Katz

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Person.png Rita Katz   WebsiteRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(Terrorism analyst)
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Born1963
Basra, Iraq
Alma materTel Aviv University
ReligionJew
Founder ofSITE Intelligence Group, Search for International Terrorist Entities
Interests“terrorism”

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Rita Katz, an Israeli expat who was born in Iraq and raised in Bat Yam, Israel. As a committed Zionist, Katz was reluctant to ever leave Israel saying, “I believed that Jews belong in Israel”.[1] Nevertheless, in 1997 Katz’s husband was offered a research fellowship in endocrinology at the National Institutes of Health and they moved to Washington DC with their three children.[2] In 2002 with Josh Devon she co-founded the SITE Institute (later to become the SITE Intelligence Group) [3]

References

  1. Aaron Leibel Author Infiltrates Islamic Terror Cells' Washington Jewish Week 29 August 2003
  2. Benjamin Wallace-Wells, 'PRIVATE JIHAD: How Rita Katz got into the spying business', The New Yorker, 29 May 2006
  3. Meet the Israeli analyst who leaked ISIS' execution videos - Ynet News 5 September 2014


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