The BESA Center held an international conference in May 2015 to mark publication of center associate Prof. Jonathan Rynhold’s book The Arab-Israel Conflict in American Political Culture (Cambridge U. Press, 2015). The conference was cosponsored by the Argov Center for …
Dr. Eitan Shamir’s new book on Military Command
The Israel Ministry of Defense has published an updated and revised Hebrew edition of Dr. Eitan Shamir’s landmark book, Transforming Command (Stanford UP, 2011; Pikud Mesima, Modan, 2015).
The book has been …
Col. (res.) Dr. Eran Lerman Joins the BESA Center
Dr. Lerman: “False Palestinian narratives of victimhood and blatant lie-telling reveal just how far the Palestinian leadership is from accepting the premises necessary for true peace with Israel.”
Col. (res.) Dr. …
Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen Joins the BESA Center
General Hacohen: “Israel must reacquire sufficient ideological determination to persevere, progress, repulse, and overwhelm its adversaries.”
Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen has joined the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies as a …
Read in the January 2016 issue (No. 33) of the BESA Center News Bulletin about the expansion of the center’s expert faculty and its activities, including articles on: Options in Responding to Palestinian …
CONFERENCE SUMMARY AND VIDEOS
In November, the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies and the Aspen Institute (Germany) convened a strategic dialogue in Israel. Discussions focused on defense and scientific cooperation, responses to terrorism, and perspectives on security …
October 2015 strategic dialogue with colleagues from the political, military and academic sectors in Australia, focusing on the strategic outlook in the Indo-Pacific and Middle East, nuclear proliferation, homeland security, asymmetric threats (including terrorism and cyber warfare), defense industry cooperation, …
On July 22, 2015, prominent politicians, generals, rabbis, writers and an audience of well over 300 people gathered at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies for a ten-year retrospective on Israel’s 2005 unilateral disengagement from Gaza.
Videos of select lectures …
On July 15, 2015, prominent academics, civil servants, corporate leaders and an audience of well over 300 people gathered at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies for a discussion of the strategic and geopolitical aspects of Israel’s newly-discovered natural gas
Col. Richard Kemp gives a speech at the Besa center at Bar Ilan university speaking about how the West’s moral attitudes toward Israel have changed.
A …
