Norman Rose is a Professor in the Department of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he held the Chaim Weizmann Chair. A historian of modern Britain, Zionism, and the Palestine Mandate, his scholarship combined meticulous archival research with biographical study. Rose authored widely acclaimed works on Winston Churchill, Chaim Weizmann, Harold Nicolson, and the Cliveden Set, situating British and Zionist history within broader international contexts. He was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and was noted for linking individual lives with the political forces of the twentieth century.

Selected works:

• Chaim Weizmann: A Biography (Penguin, 1989)
• The Cliveden Set: Portrait of an Exclusive Fraternity (Jonathan Cape, 2000)
• A Senseless, Squalid War: Voices from Palestine, 1945–1948 (Bodley Head, 2009)