Communications

“The territory guarantees strategic control over the whole southern Syrian arena, which generates an immediate threat to Israel,” Kobi Michael, a researcher at INSS and the Misgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy, told The Media Line. “There is no higher vantage point than the Syrian part of the Golan.” Power in Syria is now de-centralized, with the country...

We must remember who these rebels [who have taken power in Syria,” said Kobi Michael, a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. They belong to branches of the Islamic State armed group and the Muslim Brotherhood, which want to eliminate the State of Israel. Even if their priority at the moment is the stabilization of Syria, Israel cannot...

“The territory guarantees strategic control over the whole southern Syrian arena, which generates an immediate threat to Israel,” Kobi Michael, a researcher at INSS and the Misgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy, told The Media Line. “There is no higher vantage point than the Syrian part of the Golan.” Power in Syria is now de-centralized, with the country...

Professor Kobi Michael, a military analyst at Israeli think-tanks the Institute for National Security Studies and the Misgav Institute, predicts the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) will continue operations in Lebanon indefinitely. “The IDF will continue ‘mowing the grass’ after the 60 days and wherever the inspecting forces will not do their job,” he said, using a term originally...

Professor Kobi Michael, a military analyst at the Israeli think tanks the Institute for National Security Studies and the Misgav Institute, said the incidents were “embarrassing” and damaging for the military. “The IDF headquarters and supreme command must regain control over such violations sooner rather than later,” he said, attributing the incidents to “erosion of...