Communications

Ephraim Lavie, Mohammed Wattad, and Meir Elran of the Institute for National Security Studies, (INSS) wrote earlier this week that part of the problem is that the current government is not prioritizing the problem. “If the government does not take immediate action to deal effectively with this severe challenge, which poses a threat to domestic security, the situation is likely...

Meir Elran, a retired brigadier general and senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies in Israel, co-authored a report last year that found “tens of thousands of weapons” in Israeli Palestinian communities are stolen from IDF bases or smuggled from the West Bank, where guns have long been in circulation among militant groups, and where more young men have...

When Israel’s Ra’am Party froze its membership in the government coalition last month over the Temple Mount riots, the decision came not from the party’s leadership but from a body called the Shura Council. Earlier this month, reports surfaced that the council would force Ra’am to quit the government altogether, a move that would topple it. Opposition leader Benjamin...

At a conference earlier this month of the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, Mansour Abbas, the leader of the United Arab List-Ra’am party, the first Arab party to become a member of a ruling government coalition in Israel in the last three decades, said, "The whole of Arab society has come out against the latest wave of terrorist attacks – even...

Researchers from Israel's Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) wrote in a report published in January, "The violent clashes that erupted between Jews and Arabs with a nationalist-religious background in April-May 2021, did not reflect a popular uprising against authority and the state but mainly frustration by individuals and groups about their civil situation as...

Yoram Schweitzer, a senior researcher at Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies and head of the institute’s Program on Terrorism and Low-Intensity Conflict, said there are two main differences between the violence Israel is currently seeing and the First and Second Intifadas.

Less than half of the Israeli public believes that Israel will be able to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power, a study released by the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University has found. Overall, the study found that the majority of Israelis are far more concerned about social challenges and internal rifts than any external threat.

New survey finds Israelis far more concerned with social challenges than external threats with 57% of those asked responding that they are concerned over the future of democracy.