EIPA Press Briefing, 7th July 2021 ‘New government in Israel. New opportunity for renewed dialogue with the EU?’ With: Dr. MAYA SION -TZIDKIYAHU is a leading authority on EU-Israeli relations and the European Union integration process. She is Director of the Program on Israel-Europe Relations at Mitvim (The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies), one of Israel’s leading independent think-tanks, and Co-President of the European Association for the Study of European Integration (IASEI). She is an adjunct professor at the […]
EIPA Press Briefing, 29 April 2021 ‘Palestinian elections: the real story behind the scenes’ With: Mr. Ghaith Al-Omari is Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy where he focuses on the U.S.-Israel strategic relationship. He is the former executive director of the American Task Force on Palestine. He also served as advisor to the Palestinian negotiating team throughout the permanent permanent-status negotiations (Camp David, Taba). In addition, he held other strategic positions within the Palestinian Authority including […]
EIPA Press Briefing, 20 April 2021 ‘Opposition to the Abraham Accords: What Happened and What Comes Next for Regional Peace opponents?’ With: Dr. Moran Zaga is a researcher and a lecturer at the University of Haifa. Her main research interests are political and social boundaries, the history of borders in the Arab World and geopolitics of the Gulf States. Moran is a research fellow at the Chaikin Chair for Geostrategy at the University of Haifa and a policy fellow at […]
EIPA Press Briefing, 03 March 2021 ‘The COVID-19 Vaccination campaign: What lessons can be learned from Israel?’ With: Prof. Ran Balicer MD, PhD, MPH serves as Chief Innovation Officer for Clalit – Israel’s largest healthcare organization, Chair of Israel’s National Experts Panel on COVID-19 and serves as a senior advisor to the Israeli Government and Prime Minister Office on the COVID-19 pandemic response. Prof. Balicer serves as Commissioner for the Lancet and Financial Times Healthy Futures 2030 International Commission that […]
EIPA Press Briefing, 10 February 2021 ICC & Israel, A War on Law? With: Professor Eugene Kontorovich Professor at George Mason’s Antonin Scalia School of Law, specializing in constitutional and international law. Before coming to George Mason, he had been a professor at Northwestern University School of Law for 11 years. As head of the International Law Department at the Kohelet Policy Forum, a Jerusalem-based think tank, and he is recognized as one of the world’s preeminent experts on international […]
EIPA Briefing, 13 January 2021 ‘The virus and terrorism – Changing trends and future concerns’ with: Prof. BOAZ GANOR (Israel) is one of the world’s leading authorities on Counter-Terrorism. He is the Founder and Executive Director of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) and the Ronald S. Lauder Chair for Counter-Terrorism at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel. He previously served for five years as Dean and ten years as Deputy Dean of the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy & […]
EIPA Press Briefing, 23 December 2020 ‘Left behind as the Middle East changes? The EU and normalizations with Israel’ with: Dr. Ebtesam Al-Ketbi is a founder and president of the Emirates Policy Center and one of the first Arab women to lead an influential think tank. A professor of political science at United Arab Emirates University and a member of the Consultative Commission of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Dr. Ebtesam Al-Ketbi is also a founding member of the Emirates Human […]
EIPA press briefing, 12 November 2020 ‘A second wave of Islamist terrorism? Europe on the edge’ With: YORAM SCHWEITZER is one of the world’s leading experts on international terrorism and jihadist groups. He heads the Institute for National Security Studies’ program on Terrorism and Low Intensity Conflict, the leading Israeli strategic studies’ think tank. Both a practitioner and an expert, Schweitzer has spent most of his career as a senior officer in the Israeli military intelligence. Among other positions, he […]
EIPA Press Briefing, 29 October 2020 ‘Reset or Reboot? The Middle East after the US elections’ With: Dr. ODED ERAN has been one of Israel’s leading foreign-relations policy advisors. He is senior research fellow at Israel’s prestigious Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). Prior to having joined the INSS, Dr Eran headed Israel’s peace negotiating team with the Palestinians. He also served as the ambassador to the EU, NATO and Jordan. He held the position of deputy director general of […]
EIPA Press Briefing, 14 September 2020 ‘The UAE, Bahrein and Israel: rewriting the Middle East playbook?’ With Ambassador Dore Gold, the President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Ehud Yaari, a leading expert on Middle Eastern affairs