Amnesty Israel rejects parent group’s genocide allegations
JNS, 
5 December, 2024
Israel went to war on Hamas in Gaza after thousands of its terrorists invaded Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, murdering some 1,200 people and abducting another 255, according to Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies. Israel has killed about 17,000 terrorists in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, according to the INSS. The IDF killed another approximately 1,000 terrorists...
Netanyahu reached a cease-fire with Hezbollah. Why not with Hamas?
The Washington Post, 
27 November, 2024
Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies reports that Hezbollah has lost a total of 2,450 fighters out of an estimated 40,000 to 50,000. Hezbollah undoubtedly has tens of thousands of missiles and fighters left with which to rebuild its military capacity — and it is likely to return to southern Lebanon — next to the Israeli border — no matter what the cease-fire...
Costs of Israel-Hezbollah conflict on Lebanon, Israel
Reuters, 
27 November, 2024
Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies, which has deep ties to the military establishment, says Hezbollah has lost a total of 2,450. Hezbollah strikes have killed 45 civilians in northern Israel and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. At least 73 Israeli soldiers have been killed in northern Israel, the Golan Heights, and in combat in southern Lebanon,...
Where Is It All Going? Mixed Messages From Israel-Lebanon War
The Media Line, 
14 November, 2024
According to the Lebanese Health Ministry, over 3,200 Lebanese people have been killed since the fighting began last year. Data from the Institute of National Security Studies (INSS) at Tel Aviv University show 100 Israelis have been killed by Hezbollah attacks in the same period, the majority of them civilians. ...Kobi Michael, a researcher at INSS and the Misgav Institute...
Poll: 82% of Israelis are not optimistic about the return of residents of the north
al Jazeera, 
12 November, 2024
A survey by the Israeli National Security Studies Institute showed that more than 82% of Israeli Jews believe that the security situation does not allow for the return of residents to the northern settlements, amid the ongoing confrontation with Hezbollah. Israel added, in September of last year, the safe return of northern residents to their homes to the war objectives in the...
Why Isn’t Israel Accepting Ukrainian Know-how to Intercept Drones?
The Media Line, 
13 October, 2024
Data from the Institute of National Security Studies (INSS) at Tel Aviv University shows that since the conflict began a year ago, 180 drones have been launched by Houthi rebels, 150 by Shia militias in Iraq, and 170 by Iran. Most of these drones have been intercepted, many before entering Israeli airspace. ...Dr. Yehoshua Kalisky, a senior researcher at INSS, explained that...
How Israelis Are Feeling One Year After October 7
The Intelligencer, 
7 October, 2024
However, when you give people different options — like whether there should be a limited strike only on Hezbollah positions in a way that avoids escalation, or increments that move all the way to the other end of the spectrum, which is a massive blow against Hezbollah, the risk of regional war and even occupying southern Lebanon — when you give options like those, in surveys...
After Successes, Israel’s Military Is in a ‘Long Game’ With No Clear Outcome
The New York Times, 
3 October, 2024
According to Assaf Orion, a retired Israeli brigadier general who is now a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, “The strong and smart Israel from before Oct. 7 is back.” Mr. Nasrallah’s demise sent a message of its own to Israel’s enemies, Mr. Orion added: “You understand Israel can get to you.”. ... A survey conducted this week by the Institute for...
After Successes, Israel’s Military Is in a ‘Long Game’ With No Clear Outcome
The New York Times, 
3 October, 2024
According to Assaf Orion, a retired Israeli brigadier general who is now a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, “The strong and smart Israel from before Oct. 7 is back.” Mr. Nasrallah’s demise sent a message of its own to Israel’s enemies, Mr. Orion added: “You understand Israel can get to you.” ...A survey conducted this week by the Institute for...
Israel’s ‘War Between the Wars’ Heats Up in Syria
The Wall Street Journal, 
30 August, 2024
This week, Israel said it killed a senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative and other Iran-backed militants in a strike near the Syrian-Lebanese border. The attack was one of more than 180 in Syria attributed to Israel since October, an uptick compared with recent years, according to Armed Conflict Location & Event Data, a nonprofit, and Tel Aviv-based think tank the...