Gabriel Haritos

Gabriel Haritos is a Visiting Professor at Panteion University's Department of International, European and Area Studies, specializing in the History of Political Relations between Israel, Greece, and Cyprus. He concurrently teaches at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel Studies Program) and the University of Cyprus (Department of History and Archaeology). His research focuses on Israeli foreign policy, the Israeli political system, and Middle Eastern international relations, with a particular emphasis on Israel's relations with Cyprus and Greece.

Haritos holds a Law degree from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (1996), an MA in Mediterranean International Relations from the University of the Aegean (2007), and a PhD in International Relations from the University of Macedonia (2016). His doctoral research examined Israel's foreign policy toward Cyprus (1946–1960) using declassified Israeli archives. He has conducted postdoctoral research at Ben-Gurion University's Azrieli Center for Israel Studies, focusing on Israel-Cyprus relations during Cyprus' early independence (1960–1963).

His research has been supported by scholarships from the Cypriot Public Information Office and the Moshe Dayan Center. He has authored two monographs: «The Democratization of the Arab States as a Priority of U.S. Mideast Policy» (2008) and «Cyprus, the Neighboring Island» (2018/2020). His work frequently appears in Greek, Cypriot, and Israeli media.

Haritos has held senior research positions at the Cyprus Center for European and International Affairs (University of Nicosia since 2018) and the Moshe Dayan Center. His teaching spans multiple universities, including a groundbreaking joint course on Israel-Greece-Cyprus relations taught across three institutions in 2020–2021. His research integrates primary archival sources with geopolitical analysis, emphasizing decolonization, minority politics, and energy diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean.