A Policy-Oriented Think Tank Addressing Foreign Policy and National Security Issues for a Safe Israel

What Happened to the IDF?

A decline in the development of military doctrine and training has sidelined core military knowledge...

The Shin Bet Must Confront Russian Political Interference in Israel

In recent months, Russian operatives impersonating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political opponents have waged a...

Israel and the War in Sudan: Strategic Stakes and Regional Implications

Sudan’s ongoing civil war has unleashed the world’s gravest humanitarian disaster and threatens to destabilize...

The World Will Not Help Us with Hamas: Only the IDF Can Finish the Job in Gaza

Despite the U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement, Israel must seek American support for renewed operations to achieve...

Free the Middle East from the Logic of Hatred

The “Free Middle East!” manifesto extends the spirit of the Abraham Accords: before politics, build...

Risks and Opportunities of UNSC Resolution 2803

By endorsing Trump’s plan for Gaza, the UN Security Council ushers in a rare diplomatic...

Iranian State Terrorism: Part II
Tehran’s Hybrid War in Europe and the Caucasus

How the same Quds Force network that targets dissidents and Jewish communities in Europe also...

Iranian State Terrorism: Part I
Hostage-Taking as Policy

The convictions and release of two French nationals highlight Tehran’s long-standing strategy of using foreign...

Iran Is Cornered, and That Threatens the West

With Iran weakened militarily after the 12-day war and its economy in free fall following...

Iranian Disappointment with Russia and the Strategic Turn to China

Following Operation Rising Lion, Tehran Adjusts Its Balance between Moscow and Beijing—an Evolution, Not a...

Disarm Hamas or Face a Partitioned Gaza

Israel must make rehabilitation and local governance conditional on Hamas’s military dismantling—or reserve the right...

The Future of President Trump’s Gaza Plan in Palestinian Eyes

The notion of Gaza’s armed groups surrendering their weapons encounters broad opposition among Palestinians. Most...

Special Relationship at a Crossroads

Israel and the United States in an Era of “Transactional” Policy and Political Polarization...

The Tehran–Moscow–Beijing Triangle

The revisionist bloc reshaping global power balances—and the dangers it poses for Israel and the...

About the institute

The Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS) is an independent research institute engaged in policy-oriented research in the field of foreign and security policy. The institute was established at the end of 2017 with the aim of expressing a realistic worldview, and promoting policies that will keep Israel strong and lead to stable political arrangements. The institute insists on the importance of a united Jerusalem as a foundation for the security of the state and the national identity of the people living in Zion.

The institute provides political advice to the country’s leaders and bodies in charge of foreign and security policy. From time to time the institute publishes a situation assessment and a political-security plan. Also, the institute raises awareness of the security dilemmas of the State of Israel in the world and in the public in Israel through seminars, seminars and international conferences.

The Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security regularly briefs the diplomatic community in Israel, the local and foreign media as well as the Jewish organizations in the Diaspora. The institute maintains extensive international relations with parallel research institutes in the world, and with the strategic community in the world.

The Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Defense considers it an obligation to train a new generation of national security experts.

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