Communications

Yoram Schweitzer who heads the research program, "Terrorism and Low-Intensity Conflict" at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) stated: “When it comes to exiled opposition figures, the Iranians have been running amok – unhindered and for years.” He further noted that Iran has been targeting Israelis overseas. “When it comes to Israelis, there are periods when...

"It's a major blow," said Yoram Schweitzer, a former Israeli lieutenant-colonel and intelligence officer who's now with the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), an Israeli think-tank. "But I don't want to underestimate the capability of Hezbollah to try to recover because it has large depots of ammunition and [the organization] is still not destroyed."

Even if Nasrallah had survived Friday’s strike, the attack marks a significant expansion of Israel’s campaign against that group, according to Yoram Schweitzer, head of the program on terrorism and low-intensity conflict at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies. “It’s a signal that Israel is not reluctant to go after the higher echelons of the organization,” he...

"Hezbollah suffered a very serious blow on a tactical level, a very impressive and comprehensive one that affects the operational side, the cognitive side," said Yoram Schweitzer, a former intelligence officer now at the The Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University.

“Before, we would have feared such a strike would cause a war, but we are already in a war,” said Yoram Schweitzer, head of the program on terrorism and low-intensity conflict at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies. “The location doesn’t give them immunity anymore.”

The key to avoiding full-scale war between Israel and Hezbollah is ending the conflict in southern Israel with Hamas, asserts Yoram Schweitzer, an expert on the Palestinian and Lebanese terror groups, on the Haaretz Podcast. Schweitzer tells host Allison Kaplan Sommer that it is in Israel's power to "extricate itself" from what is already an ongoing two-front war. He blames...

Yoram Schweitzer, a former member of the Israeli intelligence community who now heads the Program on Terrorism and Low-Intensity Conflict at the INSS, a prominent think-tank, sees Netanyahu’s judicial plan as a serious threat to Israeli democracy. What Netanyahu and his extremist allies are trying to do with this so-called judicial reform is “unequivocally a regime change,”...