The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA) successfully ran its 2026 Summer Internship Program, providing 20 aspiring scholars and policy professionals with an immersive experience in strategic studies, national security, and international relations. The program brought together talented undergraduate and …
On October 19 the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA) at Bar-Ilan University hosted a delegation of researchers from the Institute of West Asian and African Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). The visit included an academic …
On October 7, the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA Center) at Bar-Ilan University hosted a senior Canadian delegation comprising senior executives, academics, legal professionals, media professionals, and community leaders. The visit was part of a broader tour of Israel, …
On July 27 The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies had the privilege of hosting Mr. Michael Eisenstadt, Director of the Military and Security Studies Program at the The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, for a lecture titled “War Termination …
Just before the Israel-Iran war, three leading BESA researchers, Commander US Navy (ret.) David Levy, Dr. Commander Israeli Navy (ret.) Eyal Pinko, and Prof. Eitan Shamir, published an article on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) in the Journal
On July 1 we were honored to host Iddo Netanyahu at the BESA Center, marking 50 years since Operation Entebbe. As part of the event, Iddo Netanyahu delivered a special lecture on the historic rescue mission and its significance in
During the month of May, Professor Eitan Shamir participated in the international economic forum “The Startup Nation Model – Encouraging Creativity and Entrepreneurship,” held in Sofia, where he spoke alongside Nobel Prize laureate Professor Dan Shechtman.
The event was organized …
At the beginning of May, Professor Eitan Shamir participated in the Delphi Economic Forum in Greece, in a fascinating panel titled “The Eastern Mediterranean in Search of a New Security Architecture.”
Together with Israel’s Ambassador to Greece, Noam Katz, and …
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