Communications

“There have been numerous attempts throughout the war to smuggle weapons into Israel, mostly from Syria, through the border aimed at reaching Palestinians in the West Bank in order to carry out attacks in Israel,” Dr. Ofir Winter, Senior Researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) at Tel Aviv University, said. “Iran has been trying to undermine the...

INSS senior researcher Ofir Winter spoke about the impact the Muslim Brotherhood has had on Israel-Jordanian relations, highlighting the group's unprecedented gain in winning of 31 out of 138 parliamentary seats in the 2024 elections. “While the Brotherhood historically was integrated into and co-opted by Jordan’s political and social system, its recent electoral success in...

Marking three decades since the signing of the Israel-Jordan peace treaty on October 26, 1994, scholars, diplomats, and policymakers gathered at Tel Aviv’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). The event featured speakers who contributed to the treaty’s negotiation and implementation, examining its achievements and the impact of recent conflicts on Israeli-Jordanian...

The Jordanian royal family has not yielded to calls from Islamist and other factions in the kingdom to cancel the peace agreement and severe cooperation with Israel. However. It has taken more modest steps to appease public sentiment: In November 2023, Jordan recalled its ambassador to Israel for consultations and announced the suspension of the " prosperity Green – Prosperity...

Ofir Winter, a senior researcher at the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies, maintains that Netanyahu’s statements on the Philadelphi Corridor pushed Cairo into a corner. "The accusations by Netanyahu, qualifying the border between Gaza and Egypt as porous, embarrassed Cairo because they imply Egyptian fault," Winter told Al-Monitor.

“Egypt’s reaction is meant to make clear to Israel that its presence at the border crossings is illegitimate in Cairo’s eyes, and that uncoordinated decisions will have a price – damage to bilateral ties,” explained Ofir Winter, senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. Egypt has another important motivation for its refusal to accept...