He did his military service in the Israel Defense Forces in the intelligence unit of the Military Police Corps. After his military service, he studied law at the University of Haifa, graduated cum laude, and was admitted to the Israel Bar Association. He later studied history and international relations at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge[3] in the United Kingdom, and was awarded an M.Phil. degree in international relations and a PhD (for his dissertation on the Israeli Mossad) by the University of Cambridge.[2]