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Posted By admin on January 26, 2021

New World Disorder: Redefining National Security is the title of the three-day 14th International Conference of the Institute for National Security Studies which opens on Tuesday, January 26 with Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi and UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Anwar Gargash discussing IDF Strategy 2021.An academic with degrees from George Washington and Cambridge universities, before entering the UAEs economic, political and diplomatic fields, gaining prominence in all three, Gargash was a faculty member of the United Arab Emirates University for ten years. His next position was as editor of the strategic studies publications of the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research. He was concurrently a businessman and from there branched into other fields. With the normalization of relations between the UAE and Israel, Gargash has urged Palestinians to return to the negotiating table.Lt. Gen. (ret.) Ashkenazi was a platoon commander in the Golani Brigade. He fought in the Yom Kippur War and five years later, during the Litani Operation, was wounded and left the IDF. Two years later, he was asked to return as a battalion commander, and during the 1982 Lebanon War, served as deputy commander of the Golani Brigade and commanded the forces that captured the Beaufort Castle. In 1987, he was promoted to commander and kept moving up in the ranks till 2005, when as deputy chief of staff, he officially retired from the army. However, a year later, he again was recalled, this time by then-defense minister Amir Peretz and was appointed director-general of the Defense Ministry. The following year, he was appointed chief of the general staff, a position that he held for four years before leaving the army for the last time in 2011. As a civilian, Ashkenazi is a former chairman of Shemen Oil and Gas Exploration. He was also the unpaid chairman of the Rashi Foundation, which assists underprivileged youth to realize their potential. He entered the political arena in 2019.Subjects that will be explored during the rest of the conference include: the Biden Administration; the World Between Trump and Biden; War in the Middle East: A strategic assessment for Israel 2021; How to Heal Israel; COVID-19 and the Home Front. Full details and registration are available on the INSS website. THE CONFEDERATION of General Zionists (CGZ) has elected American-Israeli entrepreneur, philanthropist, community organizer and activist David Yaari as its president and chairman of the board,Succeeding Jesse Sultanik, who will continue as an officer, along with Marlene Post, a past president of Hadassah the Womens Zionist Organization of America, the most important of the various Zionist hats she has worn. Sultanik is a grandson of the late Kalman Sultanik, who died in October 2014, at age 97, after leading the CGZ for 60 years.

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