Foreword

The global crisis caused by the war in Ukraine combined with Iran’s growing power as it edges closer to becoming a nuclear threshold state pose national security challenges for Israel that require determined policy by which to navigate these troubled waters.

While Israel is required to provide an adequate military response for a multidimensional front, it also has strategic as well as potent military-security, political, economic and technological cards it can play. Against this backdrop, we held a comprehensive, strategic symposium that focused on the challenges and threats presented by the global arena alongside the opportunities and acute need to discuss the strategy that must be followed in a wide range of issues that are central to Israel’s national security. The symposium was attended by past and present government, defense establishment, military and intelligence officials alongside academic scholars and IPS researchers. We are honored to present to you an integrative summary of the various views, situation analyses, insights and recommendations.

Maj. Gen. (Res.) Amos Gilead

Director, Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS), Reichman University