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Brig. Gen. (ret.) Dr. Meir Elran is a senior researcher (Emeritus) at INSS. Brig. Gen. (ret.) Elran served in the IDF as a career officer for 24 years in senior command and staff positions, primarily in the Military Intelligence Directorate. His last post was deputy director of Military Intelligence (1987-1989). Meir Elran took an active role in the peace talks with Egypt and was an active member of the military delegation to the peace talks with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Following his retirement from the military Elran served as the chief of staff of the Tel Aviv municipality and afterwards as a senior consultant for strategic planning for government offices, including the Ministry of Defense, Education, Internal Security, and the National Security Council. Elran's main areas of academic research are homeland security, disaster management, and societal resilience in face of protracted terrorism. Dr. Elran has published numerous papers on these subjects and edited several memoranda and volumes, among these: The Second Lebanon War: Strategic Perspectives (with Shlomo Brom, published by Yediot Ahronot and INSS in 2007); Societal Resilience (with Alexander McLellan, published in 2012 by the Homeland Security and Analysis Institute in the US); and The IDF Strategy in the Perspective of National Security (with Siboni and Michael, published in 2016 by INSS). Elran holds a BA degree from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in Political Science and Middle East Studies (1965), MA degree from Indiana University in International Relations and Russian Studies (1970), and PhD in Political Science from the Haifa University (2017). Dr. Elran also teaches at the University of Chicago in the Committee on International Relations (CIR).
