Communications

“The ceasefire isn’t just beneficial — it’s necessary,” says Ofer Shelah, a former MK and current director of the Israel National Security Policy research program at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Tel Aviv, speaking to Mishpacha. “What matters most is stopping the fighting, not what’s written in the agreement. The specifics of the document are secondary....

However, Ofer Shelah, a senior researcher at Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) think tank, said this delinking might ultimately make it harder to end the bloodshed in Gaza. "There'll be no real pressure now on Israel over Gaza," Shelah told Reuters.

An Israeli security expert warned that if an alternative to continuing a war on Gaza is not found soon, the damage to Israel will be "irreparable", Arab48 reported. Ofer Shelah, a researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, specified the damage would be done to "Israel, its army, its economy and its well-being". Shelah, who is also the...

The shortages are partly because of limits on arms transfers to Israel that “could become worse if Israel loses its current legitimacy for its actions in Lebanon,” the paper warned. The paper was written by Brig. Gen. Guy Hazut, an author of books on military affairs, and Ofer Shelah, the director of the Israel National Security Policy research program at the institute and a...

Ofer Shelah, a programme director at Israel's Institute for National Security Studies, said that from the Israeli standpoint there are two choices for post-war Gaza. "Either we move with a coalition, a Middle East coalition backed by the United States.. or we deteriorate.. into a situation where Israel is in control of northern Gaza and probably all of the Gaza Strip" he told...

Israel’s economy could shrink even more than that, based on a worst-case estimate by the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. Even in a more benign scenario, its researchers also see Israel’s gross domestic product per head — which in recent years overtook the United Kingdom’s — falling this year, as Israel’s population grows faster than the economy...