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Lt. Col. (res.) Stéphane Cohen is the head of the OSINT Department at the Data Analytics Center of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). Raised and hardened in the rural countryside of Burgundy, France, Cohen moved to Israel at eighteen and filled several IDF positions in the Israeli Air Force and the International Cooperation Unit. His last position was commander of the IDF liaison unit to the UN forces in Syria, Lebanon, and Israel.
Cohen has received multiple awards for outstanding service, including the State of Israel President's Award and the Israel Air Force Excellency Decoration. Until 2017, Cohen served as the Director of the Diplomatic Program at The Israel Project (TIP), a non-profit organization based in Washington and Jerusalem that provided facts to policymakers, the press, and the public on issues affecting Israel and the Middle East. Cohen has a B.A. in Political Science and International Relations from the Open University of Israel (2011) with honors, an M.A. in Security and Diplomacy from Tel Aviv University (2014), and graduated from the UN Military Observers Course (2006). Cohen has contributed to various scholarly publications, including the Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, and IPS - IDC's Journal for Policy and Strategic Affairs.
