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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

A Web of Harm: Qatari Money and the Campaign to Delegitimize Israel

Through film funding, cultural partnerships, and media support, Qatar amplifies anti-Israel narratives while cultivating its...

Community Defense as the Foundation of Homeland Defense

Israel’s homeland defense doctrine must give communities, neighborhoods, and local authorities the capacity to respond...

Weaponizing the Anniversary: Using Israel’s Strike in Qatar as a Diplomatic Tool against Israel

A year after Israel attacked the Hamas delegation in Qatar, Doha wants to draw renewed...

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