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Professor Hillel Frisch

Hillel Frisch is professor emeritus at Bar-Ilan University, Israel and former Senior Researcher in the Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies. Amongst his latest studies are “Rethinking the "Arab Spring": Winners and Losers,” Middle East Quarterly (2021) “The Palestinian Military, Two Not One,” Oxford Handbook on Military and Security Studies (2021), “Jordan and Hamas,” Handbook on Jordan, 2019, and “Assessing Iranian Soft Power in the Arab World from Google Trends,” The Journal for Interdisciplinary Middle Eastern Studies 2019.

Recent publications

The Future of Gaza after Trump’s Plan – with Eran Lerman

Watch the recording of the webinar that took place January 21, 2026....

Europe’s Hamas Problem: Financing Networks, External Terrorist Plots, and the Italian Model

The Italian investigation into a Hamas financing network underscores a broader European challenge of interconnected...

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