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20/11/2025
Professor Efraim Inbar

The World Will Not Help Us with Hamas: Only the IDF Can Finish the Job in Gaza

Despite the U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement, Israel must seek American support for renewed operations to achieve...

20/11/2025
Brig. Gen. Yossi Kuperwasser

How a Saudi F-35 deal could impinge on Israel’s strategic edge

Brig. Gen. (res.) Yosef Kuperwasser is quoted in the article...

18/11/2025
Maj. (res.) Avi Tal

Palestinian and Arab Media Coverage of the Hamas Operatives Trapped in the Rafah Tunnels

A 360 Degree Assessment of Israel’s Strategic Arenas

JISS Director Brig. Gen. (Res.) Yossi Kuperwasser sits down with Yaakov Lappin for a 360...

12/11/2025
Professor Hillel Frisch

Disarm Hamas or Face a Partitioned Gaza

Israel must make rehabilitation and local governance conditional on Hamas’s military dismantling—or reserve the right...

The Kidnapping Threat: Preventing Israel’s Moral Commitment to Hostages from Becoming a Strategic Vulnerability

Israel’s deep commitment to the safety of its citizens and soldiers has become an incentive...

04/11/2025
Brig. Gen. Yossi Kuperwasser

Israel-Gaza War

Interview with Brig. Gen. Yossi Kuperwasser...

27/10/2025
Brig. Gen. Yossi Kuperwasser

The Palestinian Narrative Must Change

The way the October 7 attack is remembered in Palestinian national memory—and the outcome of...

20/10/2025
Brig. Gen. Yossi Kuperwasser
Colonel (res.) Dr. Eran Lerman | Adv. Yifa Segal | Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak

Gaza Following the Peace Plan – A JISS Webinar

Watch the recording of the webinar that took place October 19, 2025...

15/10/2025
Brig. Gen. Yossi Kuperwasser

Brig. Gen. Yossi Kuperwasser Interview for Al Arabiya English

Gaza: Until When?

Exactly two years on from October 7, and in the wake of the ceasefire, we...

14/10/2025
Brig. Gen. Yossi Kuperwasser

Israel-Gaza Ceasefire

Interview with Brig. Gen. Yossi Kuperwasser...