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Naftali Bennett Enters the International Arena
By Amos YadlinCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

Amos Yadlin served as Israel's chief of defense intelligence and then, from 2011-2021, as executive director of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Tel Aviv.
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Since Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005 and Hamas’s takeover in 2007, the enclave has become what is known in policy and planning as a “wicked problem”—one in which efforts to treat some...
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This year’s “October surprise” may have arrived several months early, in the form of last week’s historic demonstration that the Middle East contains not only threats but also opportunities. Peace has...
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Beginning in 2011 with the Arab Spring, the Middle East—as Ofir Haivry correctly observes —has undergone irreversible changes. In his judgment, these events marked “the crumbling of a century-old Sun...
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Elliott Abrams’ analysis of Israel’s strategic environment is almost entirely on point. He is right that Israel’s status quo is much more sustainable than is commonly argued, and right again on the...