He served in the Israel Defense Forces and as an artillery officer participated in the 1978 Litani campaign and the 1982 Lebanon War. After the war he left the army to study international relations and political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also worked as a parliamentary assistant in the Knesset. After giving an interview in 1988 to the Haaretz newspaper declaring that he would refuse to serve in the Occupied Territories, he left Israel and settled in England. There he joined the Department of War Studies, King's College London, completing his PhD in 1994. Bregman is the writer of several books and articles on the Arab-Israeli conflict and Middle-Eastern Affairs. Since 1994 he has been the Daily Telegraph writer of obituaries, covering the Jewish world and Israel. A lecturer at the Department of War Studies and a journalist, Bregman lives in London with his wife Dana and children Daniel, Maya and Adam. Ahron Bregman is also a regular contributor to FREErad!cals, a blog on radicalisation by the ICSR.

Ahron Bregman is the author of several books, as well as being associate producer/consultant of two major television series.

Books

Ahron Bregman is the author of several books.

• Living and Working in Israel
• Israel's Wars: A History since 1947
• Israel and the Arabs: An Eyewitness Account of War and Peace in the Middle East
• The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs (co-authored with Jihan El-Tahri, accompanying the below series)
• Israël et les Arabes: la guerre de cinquante ans (French)
• Israël en de Arabieren: De vijftigjarige oorlog (Dutch)
• ??????? ?????? : ??? ??????? ???? (Arabic)
• ???? (Chinese)
• Israel's Wars: 1947-93
• A History of Israel
• Elusive Peace: How the Holy Land Defeated America (accompanying the below series)

Television

He was also an associate producer and academic consultant on two BBC television series:

• Israel and the Arabs: The Fifty Years War
• Israel and the Arabs: Elusive Peace