BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,922, February 8, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The fifth generation F-35 fighter jet is playing a game-changing role in Israel’s ongoing campaign to disrupt the activities of the radical Iranian axis in the Middle East.
In …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,893, January 19, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The docking of the first of four German-made Sa’ar 6-class Israel Navy warships (dubbed Magen) at Haifa Naval Base marks the arrival of an advanced sea platform that will …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,882, January 13, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Israeli defense establishment is playing a central role in the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic while also carrying out its many daily security missions. Yet at the …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,879, January 11, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Iran’s repeated threats to avenge the reported assassination of its chief nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who was shot dead outside Tehran in November, raise the likelihood of Iranian armed …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,859, December 29, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Israel Defense Forces’ Tactical Command College (TCC), the Israeli equivalent of the West Point military academy, is increasingly shaping the professional cadre of the Israeli military’s ground forces …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,796, November 2, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Turkish lira sank to a record low on October 22—a new blow for the Turkish economy, which has been battered by the coronavirus pandemic. The Islamist government led …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,783, October 22, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: As the State of Israel continues to face intertwined health, economic, and political crises simultaneously, the IDF has been left without a new defense budget. Nevertheless, it is taking …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,724, September 1, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The peace agreement between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel takes Jerusalem’s cooperation with Sunni Arab states out of the shadows. A boost to regional stability, the agreement …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,686, August 11, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Momentum, the IDF’s ambitious new multi-year force build-up program, will require a long-term budget framework if it is to achieve its goals—but clouds of uncertainty have gathered around it …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,634, July 9, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: As Hamas weighs its response to the application of Israeli sovereignty to parts of the West Bank, it continues to raise a terror army, build up its rocket arsenal, …
