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The death of Iran-backed group Hezbollah’s Chief Hassan Nasrallah might lead to positive changes in the region’s security if things are taken care of the right way, retired Brigadier General and former deputy director of Israel’s military intelligence service Dr. Meir Elran told Al Arabiya News.

Meir Elran is a retired IDF Brigadier General and former Deputy Chief of Military Intelligence. In my previous visits to Israel, he hosted my graduate students at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), discussing responses to terrorism. He and his colleagues have analyzed polling and other data to understand the “pulse” of Israeli recovery after terrorist attacks....

Researcher Meir Elran, director of the internal research group at the INSS (Institute for National Security Studies), believes that the operation must be "surgical" to succeed and will be considered a "failure" if it does not bring back the majority of the hostages. "Israel has put everything in place to recover them, through a dual strategy of talks and military action. The...

Brig. Gen. (ret.) Dr. Meir Elran, senior researcher and director of the domestic research cluster of the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, says that Shifa Hospital has become a symbol for the press during the war, and in the same manner, it is a symbol for Hamas—and, consequently, for the IDF, too. However, he tells The Media Line, “The amount of...

Two key elements will lead to victory in the difficult war imposed upon us on the cursed Saturday of October 7th: the IDF, which will bring the necessary military decision, and the national resilience that the Israeli society will express, which will bring recovery and prosperity after the war."

Brigadier-General (res.) Meir Elran studies the way societies and communities rebuild after calamities. A moment after Hamas’ horrifying attack, when the future appears darker than ever, he manages to find small reasons for optimism

Brig. Gen. (ret.) Dr. Meir Elran, senior researcher and director of the domestic research cluster of the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, told The Media Line that the Second Intifada, as far as the Israelis are concerned, was a “game changer.” “The notion of the Palestinians being a partner to a peace process ended following the Second Intifada,” says...

An added fear is of a broad spillover of violence into other societies. Neighboring Druze communities are already experiencing an increase in criminality, though it has yet to spread across the country at large, according to Meir Elran, a senior researcher at Tel Aviv’s Institute for National Securities Studies. “Criminal organizations are constantly testing the boundaries and...

Israel is experiencing a massive wave of murders, one particularly focused on the Arab Israeli sector. The number of deaths so far this year is at least double that of last year at this time. And the extent of the lawlessness seems to have ticked up last week, when on Monday Abdul Rahman Kashua, director-general of the Arab municipality of Tira, was murdered, and then on...