From Iran’s ongoing nuclear aspirations to its influence in Syria and Lebanon to new frontiers of cyber war, Iran may be one of the most dangerous adversaries Israel has ever faced. Join us to discuss the threats that Iran poses to Israel and the measures it has developed in response.

Professor Chuck Freilich, a former deputy national security adviser in Israel and long-time senior fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center, teaches political science at Columbia, NYU and Tel Aviv Universities. He is the author of Zion’s Dilemmas: How Israel Makes National Security Policy (Cornell Press 2012); Israeli National Security: A New Strategy for an Era of Change (Oxford Press 2018); and Israel and the Cyber Threat: How the Startup Nation Became a Global Cyber Power (forthcoming 2020). He has published numerous academic articles and over 150 op-eds, and appears frequently on US, Israeli and international TV and radio stations.

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