Prof. Siboni was director of the military and strategic affairs program, and the cyber research program, of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) from 2006-2020, where he founded academic journals on these matters. He serves as a senior consultant to the IDF and other Israeli security organizations and the security industry. He holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in engineering from Tel Aviv University and a Ph.D. in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) from Ben-Gurion University. More may be found here. His list of publications may be found here.

Senior Researcher. Professor Inbar served at the head of JISS (October 2017-January 2025). He also serves as the Head of the program on Strategy, Diplomacy, and National Security at the Shalem College.

Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak is an expert on contemporary Turkish politics and foreign policy, Turkish-Israeli relations, and the Kurds. He is co-editor of Turkeyscope, a publication of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University.

Jonathan I. Hessen is a Senior Fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, specializing in geostrategy and security issues related to the Middle East and Europe. He is Editor In Chief and lead Host of TV7 Israel, where he has produced thousands of high-level geostrategic panels. Mr. Hessen is also a nonresident Senior Advisor for Middle East Affairs at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) in Washington DC; CEO of Messer Sheva Ltd. and Hessen Global Strategy; and founding president, executive producer, and chairman of Truth For The Nations in Tulsa, OKC. He previously served as an advisor at Israel’s Ministry of Regional Cooperation, and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington DC; and is a veteran of the IDF and Israel Border Police. He holds a BBA from York University.