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Major General (res.) Yaakov Amidror

The Anne and Greg Rosshandler Senior Fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security.

General Amidror was National Security Advisor to Prime Minister Netanyahu and chairman of the National Security Council (April 2011-November 2013). He served for 36 years in senior IDF posts (1966-2002), including commander of the Military Colleges (including the National Defense College, Staff and Command College, and Tactical Command Academy), military secretary to the Minister of Defense, director of the Intelligence Analysis Division in Military Intelligence, and chief intelligence officer of the Northern Command. He is a distinguished fellow at JINSA’s Gemunder Center. He is the author of three books on intelligence and military strategy, Reflections on Army and Security (Hebrew, 2002), Intelligence, Theory and Practice (Hebrew, 2006), and Winning Counterinsurgency War: The Israeli Experience (JCPA, 2008).

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Don’t ease-up on Iran

Israel’s intelligence branches need to understand what was destroyed and then identify where and how Iran intends to push its military build-up forward – and neutralize that as well.

12/05/2018
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL, 30 April 2018 - 3D Rendering for Israel revealing 100 000 Iranian files on secret nuclear program.

The depth of Iran’s deception

Many criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s unveiling of a secret Iranian nuclear archive as “nothing new” and “a performance.” But there was plenty new in his presentation, and it will have far-reaching implications.

08/05/2018
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Global tensions: No end in sight

With global tensions on the rise, Israel could find itself alone, both in the struggle to prevent a nuclear Iran and in trying to contain Iran’s actions in Syria.

15/04/2018
Flag of Iran,realistic puzzle effect.

The missing piece of the puzzle

Given the bad nuclear deal signed with Iran, Israel must be diligent about risk management; no matter how relentless intelligence gathering efforts are, not all threats can be countered. Israel will not allow enemy states to go nuclear.

28/03/2018
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Iran, Deeply Embedded in Syria, Expands ‘Axis of Resistance’

Iran, Deeply Embedded in Syria, Expands ‘Axis of Resistance’

Gen. Amidror: “Israel face not only quantities of Hezbollah missiles, but the threat to vulnerable strategic sites.”

By Ben Hubbard, Isabel Kershner and Anne Barnard, The New York Times, Feb. 19, 2018

23/02/2018
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When will the next war begin?

It must be made clear to Israel’s rivals in both the north and the south that they will pay a very serious price for attacking Israel.

11/02/2018
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and first deputy Ishaq Jahangiri election rally in Tehran's Azadi Stadium, May 13, 2017.

New storms on the horizon

The recent protests in Iran are very important because they point to the Iranian leadership’s economic failures, and the consequent anger harbored by a considerable number of Iranian citizens over their country’s investments in far-off countries such as Lebanon and Syria. These investments, they feel, are at their expense.

15/01/2018

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