Related Activties
Other activities related to academic field:
Consultant to CBS “60 Minutes.”
Interviews on professional matters on Israeli and international TV (channel 1 and 2 and 10, al-Jazira, al-Arabia, Discovery and more), Israeli daily newspapers (Ha’aretz, Yedioth Ahronot, Maariv, and the Jerusalem Post), and various newspapers outside Israel.
About 150 Op-Ed contributions to Ha’aretz (1997-2015) and YNET (2011-15). About 20 Book reviews in Ha’aretzBook Supplement.
Invited to testify in professional mattersbefore the Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, and the Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee.
Invited lectures on “Intelligence Ethics,” “The Causes of Strategic Surprise,” “Relations between Intelligence and Policy Makers,” “The Yom Kippur Intelligence Fiasco,” “Israel’s National Security Conception,” and other intelligence and national security issues to various forums in: The Prime Minister’s Office, Defense Military Intelligence, Ministry of Defense, The National Weapons Development Industries, etc.
Invited lectures in recent years
Sept.2008, The Norwegian Defense and Staff College, Oslo, “Cognitive Barriers to High Quality Analysis.”
Sept. 2009, The Norwegian Defense and Staff College, Oslo, “Barbarossa, Pearl Harbor, and Yom Kippur: The Roots of intelligence Failures.”
April 2010, Link Campus University, Department for Strategic Intelligence and Security, Rome, “What’s Wrong with Intelligence and Can It Be Fixed?”
September 2010, The Norwegian Defense and Staff College, Oslo, “Cognitive Closure and Intelligence Failures: The Case of Yom Kippur.”
June 2011, The Israel Intelligence Heritage and Commemoration Center, Glilot, “Cognitive Barriers, Intelligence Estimate Failures and the War of 1973.”
September 2011, The Norwegian Defense and Staff College, Oslo, “Politics, Ethics, and Intelligence.”
September 2011, The Israeli Association for Military History, Ramat Gan, “Strategic Surprise and Its Impact.”
September 2012, The Norwegian Defense and Staff College, Oslo,“Intelligence Warnings and Popular Revolutions: Lessons from Iran.”
May 2013, The IDF National Security College, Glilot, “The Special Means of Collection and Intelligence Failure in the Yom Kippur War.”
July 2013, IDF Military Intelligence annual conference, Glilot, “The Arab Spring as a Challenge to Intelligence.”
September 2013, University Roma-Tre, Rome, “The Arab-Israeli Political Process: 1973 and 2013.”
September 2013, The Norwegian Defense and Staff College, Oslo, “Intelligence Paradoxes.”
November 2013, Security Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C., “The Paradox of the Yom Kippur War – New Evidence and New Lessons.”
November 2013, Security Studies Program, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, “Intelligence Fiasco: The Human Factor.”
February 2014, Norwegian Naval Training Establishment, Bergen, “Motivated Biases as Causes of Intelligence Estimation Failures: The Case of the 1968 Tet Offensive.”
September 2014, The Norwegian Defense and Staff College, Oslo, “Intelligence Success and Failure: Russia 1941, Korea 1950, Israel 1973.”
December 2014, Strategy and National Security Forum, “The Interdisciplinary Center,
Herzliya, National Warning Failures: A Comparative Study.”
Participation in academic conferences in recent years
March 2012, International Studies Association annual meeting, San Diego, “Forecasting a Hurricane: Intelligence estimates and the Iranian Revolution.”
May 2012, Academic Peace Orchestra Middle East,Alghero, Italy, “Threat Perception: The View from Israel.”
June 2012, Israel Studies Association, University of Haifa,“Towards a New History of the Yom Kippur War.”
June 2012, The International Symposium on “History, Theory, and Practice in International Security,”Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC, Herzlia, “Intelligence Estimates and Revolutionary Developments.”
September 2012, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Vienna, “The Impact of the Holocaust on Israeli Strategic Thinking.”
February 2013, Academic Peace Orchestra Middle East, Malta, “Regional Balance of Terror: Egyptian and Israeli Perspectives.”
October 2013, Dipartimento di ScienzeUmane e Socili, “1973”, Naples, “Israel and the 1973 War: Major Lessons.”
July 2014, Academic Peace Orchestra Middle East, Nicosia, “Israel’s Nuclear Opacity: Time to change?”
February 2015, Academic Peace Orchestra Middle East, Berlin, “Israeli Perspectives on Regional WMD Free Zone Agreement.”
August 2015, Intelligence and Decolonization in the Middle East and Beyond, Ben- Gurion University, Beer Sheba, “Intelligence and Revolutions.”
October 2015, Frankfurt Peace Academy,Frankfurt,“Middle East Regional Order.”
December 2015, From the Iranian Nuclear Project to the Nucleus of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Israel’s Strategic-Existential Discussion, The Tel Aviv University, The Unbearable Poverty of the Discussion.