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    Rear Admiral (ret.) Yuval Eylon is a Senior Visiting Fellow at INSS in the field of naval strategy. During his 30 years of service in the IDF, Yuval performed a wide variety of command, train, plan, and staff positions in the Navy. He began commanding a wide variety of vessels on missions in the maritime arena in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. He commanded the Naval Academy, where he led the change in the concept of training and adapted it to the current challenges. As the commander of the Israeli Navy training base, Yuval led the processes of developing training and training concepts adapted to the Navy’s development, in addition to receiving new submarines and vessels. He served as the commander of the southern naval arena where he was responsible for the naval arena in the Gaza Strip and gained experience in dealing with the Palestinian arena in Gaza and in developing defense concepts for strategic sites in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of Israel. Yuval was involved in the IDF’s multi-year planning as the head of the Strategic and Future Requirements Department in the Navy (N5).

    In December 2019, Yuval was appointed the head of INI (Israeli Naval Intelligence Division) (N2), during a period characterized by expanding and intense confrontation to curb Iranian entrenchment in Syria and the developing Iranian challenge in the naval arena. At the end of his service period, Yuval assumed the position of head of the Operations, Plans, and Policy Division (N3) during Operation Guardians of the Walls.

    After his retirement from the IDF, Yuval served as a project manager in the Ministry of Construction and Housing and helped with receiving Ukrainian and Russian Jews, who came to Israel as a result of the war between Ukraine and Russia.

    Yuval holds a BA with honors from Ben Gurion University, an MA from the National Security College and Haifa University, and he is a graduate of the US Naval War College in the field of strategy and national security.

    Yuval Eylon
    Yuval Eylon
    Senior Visiting Fellow
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    Publications

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    INSS Insight
    Israel in the Red Sea: From Threats to Cooperation
    The crisis in the Red Sea, caused by the actions of the Houthi terrorist milita, creates a naval blockade in the area while also opening new opportunities for the State of Israel
    9 October, 2024
    INSS Insight
    The Unmanned Maritime Threat: Implementing Lessons From the Aerial Theater
    Unmanned maritime systems, alongside with suicide drones: The unmanned systems, which are being discovered more intensely in the context of the fighting in the north, may also be used against Israeli vessels. Is Israel prepared for the challenge?
    3 July, 2024
    Special Publication
    Houthi Terror and the Global Threat to Freedom of Shipping: The Need for a Multinational Maritime Alliance
    What is the required response to the Houthi-Iranian belligerence that disrupts freedom of navigation in key Middle East maritime routes?
    25 December, 2023
    Special Publication
    The Challenge of Defending Underwater Communication Infrastructures
    Israel is connected to the world through a single-digit number of underwater cables, providing the main communication channel with the world for all civil and defense-related information. How should this critical infrastructure be defended?
    29 June, 2023
    INSS Insight
    The Maritime Arena: Strengthening the Abraham Accords and the Anti-Iranian Alliance
    A bill submitted in the US Congress calls for the formulation of a naval strategy that includes an alliance to combat naval terrorism in the Middle East. How might Israel be a part of this process?
    22 May, 2023
    Strategic Assessment
    The Disruption of Global and National Supply Chains—Aspects and Insights
    The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the strength and significance of global maritime trade in general, and Israeli maritime trade in particular. Furthermore, it seeks to analyze the various disruptions that have affected maritime trade in recent years, including exceptional events such as climate phenomena, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Swords of Iron war, whose ramifications are only beginning to emerge. In particular, this paper discusses the current disruptions in supply chains due to the Iranian and Houthi attacks on shipping routes in the Red Sea. These disruptions indicate numerous weak points in the stability and operation of global supply chains, which are crucial for the national economies and security of numerous countries, particularly Israel. Over the past three years, the world has experienced a series of extreme events that have significantly affected various aspects of life, especially the global economy. This paper examines these events and their repercussions on global geo-logistics—the distribution of supply chains according to level and type. Additionally, it includes a description and analysis of Israeli foreign trade, specifically highlighting the import processes and the types of cargo that have been affected by the disruptions during the period in question. Israel’s grain imports, which are vital for the country both in normal circumstances as well as during emergencies, are used as a case study. Furthermore, the paper also surveys the operational conditions, including challenges faced in the ports of origin of the various cargoes and recent challenges within this market.