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Prof. Eytan Gilboa

Expert on US Israel relations, international communication, and public diplomacy.

Prof. Eytan Gilboa is an expert on US Israel relations, international communication, and public diplomacy. He was the founding Head of both the School of Communication and the Center for International Communication at Bar-Ilan University.  He has been a senior fellow at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy. He also was a senior research associate at the BESA Center for Strategic Studies. He received his MA and PhD degrees from Harvard University and has been a visiting professor in several top American and European universities including Harvard, Tufts, UCLA, USC, Georgetown, the University of Hamburg, the Vienna School of International Studies, and the University of Pennsylvania. He published many books and numerous articles and book chapters and won several international awards. He served as Chair of the Israel Communication Association and frequently contributes op-ed articles to newspapers and news websites and serves as a popular commentator for television and radio networks. He was an adviser to several foreign governments, and in Israel, to the Prime Minister Office, the Ministries of Defense and Foreign affairs, the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs and Defense, and the Government Press Office. He also served as Director of International Studies at the National Defense College, Chair of the Foreign Service Selection Committee; Member of the Committee on Higher Education of the City of Jerusalem; and Chair of the Political Science and International Relations Committee and the Communication Committee at the National Science Foundation.

Articles by Prof. Eytan Gilboa

April 14, 2024, Tehran, Iran: An Iranian pro-government supporter woman holds an anti-Israel poster o

Indict Iran at the International Court of Justice in The Hague

Tehran’s repeated statements that Israel should be ‘wiped off the map, its clock counting down to Israel’s destruction, its support and activation of proxies targeting Israel and its own direct missile and drone strikes are damning evidence of its genocidal intent.

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Changes in the military deployment of the United States and their implications for Israel’s wars in the region

At the start of the Gaza War, President Biden warned Iran and its proxies against launching an all-out attack on Israel and sent aircraft carriers to the region to clarify his intentions. The withdrawal of the Gerald R. Ford carrier from the Mediterranean could be interpreted as a sign of American weakness, diminish deterrence of Iran, and undermine US mediation efforts in Lebanon.

US President Joe Biden

Connecting Strategic Dots: Biden’s Visit to the Middle East

During Biden’s upcoming visit, he plans to form a regional defense alliance at a regional conference in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The coalition will include the United States, Israel, and a host of Arab countries, including Gulf states, Egypt, Jordan, and Iraq. In this sense, Biden continues Trump’s policy of the Abraham Accords.

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