Defense expert Zeev Schiff, one of Israel’s most-respected and well-known journalists, has died, his newspaper, the Haaretz daily, announced. He was 74.

Schiff died last night, the newspaper said. It did not disclose a cause of death.

Schiff covered military and defense issues for Haaretz for more than 50 years, serving as the paper’s defense editor in recent years. He published numerous books about regional military and security issues and contributed articles to Foreign Policy, National Interest, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post, Haaretz said.

“There was almost nothing about the security equation between Arabs and Israel, Israel and the U.S., or the military that Zeev didn’t know, understand, know the human story behind, and understand the strategic value of,” the executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, where Schiff was a fellow, Robert Satloff, said.

The editor-in-chief of Haaretz, David Landau, called Schiff “supremely important” to the paper. “He was definitely our most renowned commentator, whose name was known and respected in capitals throughout this region and the world,” Mr. Landau said.

Schiff was buried in Tel Aviv yesterday. He is survived by his wife and two sons.