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  • Dr. Uzi Rubin | Professor Efraim Inbar | Colonel (res.) Dr. Eran Lerman
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JISS houses a distinguished team of experts with deep knowledge in national security, geopolitics, and military strategy. These specialists have served in critical roles across the military, academia, and diplomatic spheres, enabling them to provide nuanced analyses of regional and global challenges.
    Dr. Uzi Rubin

    Dr. Uzi Rubin

    Dr. Rubin was founder and first director (1991-1999) of the Israel Missile Defense Organization in the Israel Ministry of Defense, which developed, produced and deployed the country’s first national defense shield – the Arrow missile. He subsequently served as Senior Director for Proliferation and Technology in the National Security Council (1999-2001), and directed several defense programs at the Israel Aerospace Industries and in the defense ministry. He was twice awarded the Israel Defense Prize (1996 and 2003). He was also awarded the US Missile Defense Agency “David Israel” Prize (2000). He has been a visiting scholar at the Stanford Center for International Security and Arms Control, where he directed a study on missile proliferation.

    Professor Efraim Inbar

    Professor Efraim Inbar

    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.

    Colonel (res.) Dr. Eran Lerman

    Colonel (res.) Dr. Eran Lerman

    Dr. Lerman is deputy director of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS). He was deputy director for foreign policy and international affairs at the National Security Council in the Israeli Prime Minister's Office. He held senior posts in IDF Military Intelligence for over 20 years. He also served for eight years as director of the Israel and Middle East office of the American Jewish Committee. He teaches in the Middle East studies program at Shalem College in Jerusalem, and in post-graduate programs at Tel Aviv University and the National Defense College. He is an expert on Israel’s foreign relations, and on the Middle East. A third-generation Sabra, he holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, and a mid-career MPA from Harvard University.

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