Israel’s National Security Staff at Twenty 

In 1999, some fifty years after Prime Minister Ben-Gurion first proposed the idea, Israel’s national security council was finally established. Much like the American NSC, on which it was modelled, Israel’s NSC (renamed the Israel National Security Staff-INSS) was the...

Stuxnet

Stuxnet: The US-Israeli Cyber Campaign Against the Iranian Nuclear Program Ever since the early 1990s, a shared perception of the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear program has been the basis for a variety of joint US-Israeli efforts, spanning the diplomatic, economic and...

On Being an Israel Expert and IDF Expert

  I have spent nearly four decades honing my expertise in Israeli national security, US-Israeli relations, American policy in the Middle East and Middle Eastern affairs generally. I served in Israel’s defense establishment for over two decades, as an analyst...