Communications

“Lapid made a relatively cautious move in the hopes that it wouldn’t affect ties even though he made less than complimentary comments and received a less then complimentary response,” Zvi Magen, a research fellow at Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies, told The Media Line. “We must remember that Israel is not providing Ukraine with weapons and has not...

“It’s not just the last attack in Aleppo. We are seeing a general change of pattern in this ongoing battle, which is focused on airports. It started with an attack on the Damascus Airport,” Carmit Valensi, head of the Syria program at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, told The Media Line.... “It’s a war. Iran is trying to transfer dangerous...

Relations between Israel and Russia have worsened since the beginning of the Ukraine war, said Zvi Magen, a former ambassador to Russia and the former head of Nativ, the Israeli government body tasked with verifying the eligibility of immigrants from the former Soviet bloc. Pointing to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement that Adolph Hitler had Jewish blood and...

“We really don’t know what the actual results of the meeting were, whether they signed something in the way of a real alliance,” said Zvi Magen, senior research fellow at the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). “We know what they said and what they intended by the meeting. Iran and Russia have a mutual interest in presenting a united front against...

“There is no turning back from that,” Zvi Magen, a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, who was Israel’s ambassador to Ukraine from 1993 to 1997 and ambassador to Russia from 1998 to 1999, told The Media Line. ...“Since the start of the war [in Ukraine] there have been more and more incidents where Russia complains about Israel...

Magen, who is currently head of the Russia research program at Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), emphasized that Israel tries to support Ukraine in other ways, such as with humanitarian aid, and by allowing other countries to sell Israeli-developed systems to Ukraine.

Four Syrian soldiers were killed, and three others were wounded, in an Israeli missile attack on several positions of regime forces in Damascus early on Wednesday, the state-controlled Syrian Arab News Agency reported.

“Russia can’t come out of this with an unequivocal victory. What’s realistic is that it can reach some understanding with the Ukrainians,” Zvi Magen, senior research fellow at the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), told JNS. Magen, who served as Israel’s ambassador to Ukraine (1993-1997) and Israel’s ambassador to Russia (1998-1999), said that from...

Zvi Magen, a former Israeli ambassador to Russia and senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies, had a more optimistic view about Putin’s intentions but agreed that Bennett, the diplomat, will not be the deciding factor.

Russia could be preparing an option to challenge the West and NATO in the Mediterranean and Middle East as a means of opening a new global hotspot, former Israeli Ambassador to Russia and Ukraine Zvi Magen has told JNS. ... “They are in the Mediterranean training and this could form a challenge for NATO’s underbelly. This creates all kinds of problems and a new front against...