Prof. Efraim Inbar

Prof. Efraim Inbar is the president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security and the chairman of the Department of Strategy, Diplomacy, and Security at Shalem College. A professor (emeritus) of political science at Bar-Ilan University, he was also the founding director and long-time head of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA). Inbar has been a visiting professor at Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, and Boston Universities, a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Manfred Warner NATO Fellow, and a visiting fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. An expert on Israeli strategic doctrine, public opinion on national security issues, American policy in the Middle East, Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy, and Israel-Turkey relations, he is the author of five books and the editor of 14 collections of scholarly articles.

Previously, Inbar has served as president of the Israel Association of International Studies; as a member of the Political Strategic Committee of the National Planning Council; as chairman of the National Security Curriculum committee in the Ministry of Education; and as a member of the Academic Committee of the IDF History Department.