Modern History & Geopolitics
Understanding Israeli Geopolitics
Israel’s geopolitical landscape is intricate and ever-present throughout your Israel Trek. Providing participants with a foundational understanding before arrival fosters more informed discussions on the ground and enhances their overall experience.
She teaches at IDC-Herzliya and is an associate at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism. She served for over 20 years in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the Intelligence community. After retiring at the rank of full colonel, Eisin served as the Israeli government spokesperson in the Second Lebanon War.
He is a co-founder of the Gulf-Israel Policy Forum and a fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute, a leading think-tank on issues of importance to Israel and the Jewish people. He is the Director of Communications and Global Affairs at Sharaka, an NGO that works to build people-to-people peace between Israel and the Arab world.
Eyal Dror served in the IDF for 24 years. In June 2016, he took command of the Golan Heights-based “Operation Good Neighbor”, after Israeli leaders decided to step up humanitarian assistance for Syrians living near the border. Under his leadership, the “Operation Good Neighbor” team led 700+ humanitarian operations on the Israeli-Syrian border, most of them providing medical treatment in Israeli hospitals to Syrians impacted by the civil war that raged across the border.
Principal Deputy Legal Adviser at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, Becker has been a senior member of the Israeli peace negotiation team in successive rounds of peace negotiations, playing an instrumental role in negotiating and drafting the recent agreements between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, and Morocco.
Sarit Zehavi is the CEO and founder of Alma – a nonprofit, independent research and education center specializing in Israel’s security challenges on its northern border. Zehavi has briefed hundreds of groups and forums, including US Senators, members of Congress, senior journalists, and visiting VIP groups in Israel and overseas. She has also written numerous policy papers and updates focusing on Lebanon, Syria, and Israel’s national security challenges.
Alma is a non-profit education and research center dedicated to researching the security challenges on Israel’s northern borders and sharing insights about those challenges with opinion leaders, research centers, academia, and anyone interested in the multi-dimensional complexities in the Middle East.
The Institute for National Security Studies is a non-partisan think tank that conducts innovative research that shapes the public discourse regarding issues on Israel's national security agenda and provides policy analysis and recommendations to decision-makers, public leaders, and the strategic community in Israel and abroad. As part of its mission, it is committed to encouraging new ways of thinking and expanding the traditional contours of establishment analysis.
A foreign policy think tank established in 2011, the Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policy-Mitvim’s mission is to promote Israel’s regional cooperation in the Middle East, Europe, and the Mediterranean, and to advance Israeli-Palestinian peace. Mitvim generates progressive new foreign policy knowledge and puts it into use by engaging with local and international political, diplomatic, and civil society actors.
Founded in December 1994 at a historic meeting in Egypt, EcoPeace Middle East brings together Jordanian, Palestinian, and Israeli environmentalists to protect their shared environmental heritage by integrating environmental considerations into the regional development agenda. The organization, which has offices in Amman, Ramallah, and Tel Aviv, seeks to advance both sustainable regional development and create conditions necessary for lasting peace in this conflict-torn region.