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The Middle East Forum presents this week's podcasts.

*Note: Israel Insider with Ashley Perry has been rescheduled from Wednesday, April 10 to Thursday April 11 at 2:00PM Eastern Time.

Israel‘s Defense Strategy after October 7: New Thinking Needed

with Eran Ortal

The retreat of the Egyptian, Jordanian, and Syrian armies and their replacement by Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis has confounded the once-great IDF. Indeed, Israeli military culture is rightly described as combining tactical brilliance with strategic blindness. Israel urgently needs renewed strategic thinking; where might it come from? How can Israel confront and defeat Iran’s “ring of fire”? What approaches should it take to each specific threat?

Monday, April 8, 2024
1:00pm - 1:30pm ET

Online:
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By Phone:
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Eran Ortal is a reserve IDF brigadier-general and a military theorist. He commanded The Dado Center for Interdisciplinary Military Studies, and is the founder and editor of the center’s journal, Bein Ha-Ktavim. He graduated from the IDF's National Security College and holds an MA in security studies from Tel Aviv University.

Israel Insider

with Ashley Perry

Iran and Israel have been fighting covertly for decades. Does the air attack on Damascus killing Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior military commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' Quds Force, signal the start of overt war between the two states?

Thursday, April 11, 2024
2:00pm - 2:30pm ET

Online:
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By Phone:
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Ashley Perry is an advisor to the Middle East Forum’s Israel office. He served as advisor to Israel's minister of foreign affairs and deputy prime minister in 2009-15, and has also worked with Israel's Ministers of Intelligence, Agriculture and Rural Development, Energy, Water and Infrastructure, Defense, Tourism, Internal Security, and Immigrant Absorption and as an advisor to The Negev Forum. Originally from the UK, he moved to Israel in 2001. He holds a BA from University College London and an MA from Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).

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