Rashad Abdullah Al-Shami (January 5, 1943 - October 14, 2006 AD), one of the pioneers of Hebrew studies in Egypt and the Arab world, and head of the first department specialized in teaching Hebrew and Israeli studies in Egypt and the Arab world at the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University. Al-Shami is considered one of the most prominent specialists in the field of Israeli affairs and Hebrew literature, and he has long immersed in the analysis of the Jewish and Zionist personality, and the author of the first Arabic translation of the Talmud, and he held the position of Head of the Hebrew Language Department at the Faculty of Arts at Ain Shams University until 2003 AD. On January 5, 1943, our deceased was born in the Egyptian governorate of Kafr El-Sheikh, to a middle class family. He graduated from Ain Shams University, and obtained a doctorate in 1973, to devote himself to his research and academic work at the university where he worked as a teacher, and head of the Hebrew language department at the Faculty of Arts. The late great also lived a few years of his life as a teacher and researcher in some Arab universities (Iraq, Algeria, Kuwait). Dr. Al-Shami began his scientific research journey at an early age, when he began publishing his articles on Zionism and Israeli politics on the pages of the International Politics magazine since 1969, to immediately start establishing the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in 1969 with Dr. Abdel-Wahab El-Mesiri and Dr. Osama El-Baz.