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

Professor Efraim Inbar

President of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security.

Professor Inbar also serves as the Head of the program on Strategy, Diplomacy, and National Security at the Shalem College. Professor Inbar was the founding director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, a position he held for 23 years (1993-2016), and a professor of political studies at Bar-Ilan University. He has been a visiting professor at Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, and Boston universities; a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; a Manfred Warner NATO Fellow; and a visiting fellow at the (London-based) International Institute for Strategic Studies. He was president of the Israel Association of International Studies; a member of the Political Strategic Committee of the National Planning Council; chairman of the National Security Curriculum Committee in the Ministry of Education; and a member of the Academic Committee of the IDF History Department. He has authored five books: Outcast Countries in the World Community (1985), and War and Peace in Israeli Politics. Labor Party Positions on National Security (1991), Rabin and Israel’s National Security (1999), The Israeli-Turkish Entente (2001), and Israel’s National Security: Issues and Challenges since the Yom Kippur War (2008), and edited fourteen collections of scholarly articles. He is an expert on Israeli strategic doctrine, public opinion on national security issues, US Middle East policy, Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy, and Israel-Turkey relations.

Inbar holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, after finishing undergraduate studies in Political Science and English Literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Articles by Professor Efraim Inbar

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The West’s Fear of Escalation Is Not Helpful

Western attitudes view the use of force as uncivilized and anachronistic; Middle Easterners see it a legitimate option in the toolbox of international actors. In fact, in this part of the world, in many situations, escalation is the best way to put an end to violence.

DONALD J. TRUMP

Is Trump Good for Israel?

Israel must carefully navigate U.S. politics to maintain bipartisan support and avoid the appearance of election interference. Trump has isolationist instincts and can be unpredictable.

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Closing Remarks: Prof. Efraim Inbar, President, JISS

Closing remarks of the “Africa and Israel: Building Strategic and Economic Bridges” which took place on July 2, 2024 at Tel-Aviv University. The conference is a joint collaboration between the S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies at Tel-Aviv University, the Israel-Africa Relations Institute (IAI), and the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS).

Minister of Defense YOAV GALLANT visits the Gaza Strip

The Myopia of Containment

Up until October 7, Israel limited its response to Hamas attacks. This policy failed to attain its goals and resulted in a deterrence failure. It must reconsider the notion of a pre-emptive strike that was part of its original security doctrine.

Old cracked wall with radiation warning sign and painted flag, flag of Iran

Has the Iranian challenge been forgotten?

Israel must take seriously Iran’s stated intention to destroy the Jewish state. Iran’s desire to attain nuclear weapons serves its goal of eliminating Israel and its strategy of using its proxies to threaten Israel’s civilian population. All measures taken so far to stop Tehran’s nuclear project have failed, and Israel has no choice but to urgently eliminate this threat by military means.

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