The “Iron Swords” war broke out in the early morning hours of October 7—fifty years and one day from the start of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The number of Jews killed was the most on one day since the Holocaust and Israelis have witnessed atrocities that they never thought would be repeated. MediaCentral was the first to help foreign journalists in the country get updated on what exactly was going on with a Zoom conference just hours after the war erupted. We have continued to follow the resulting military operations and have assisted the more than one thousand reporters who have been sent to the region to cover the events.
April 04: Marking Six Months to October 7 — Zoom Panel in Cooperation with MIND Israel
Speakers:
Major General (ret.) Amos Yadlin
Brigadier General (ret.) Ram Yavne
Dr. Michal Hatuel Radoshitzky
April 7 marked six months since the most horrific terror attack the State of Israel has experienced in its history, and the start of the war against its perpetrators, Hamas.
After months of fighting and with no hostage deal in sight, what will the coming months look like? (Rafah, the northern border, Iran) With the latest developments, what could the criticism from the international community mean for the next stages, particularly Israel-US relations? What are the chances for a hostage deal and what should Israel’s next steps be?
Major General (ret.) Amos Yadlin, Brigadier General (ret.) Ram Yavne and Dr. Michal Hatuel Radoshitzky discussed these issues and more.
Major General (ret.) Amos Yadlin, President & Founder of MIND Israel is a former Head of Israel’s Defense Intelligence, former Deputy Commander of Israel’s Air Force, and a Senior Fellow at the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, Harvard University. He is a top national security analyst on Israel’s Channel 12 and the former Executive Director of the INSS. He serves as chairman of Ben-Gurion Heritage Institute.
Brigadier General (ret.) Ram Yavne, Senior Advisor at MIND Israel, was the Head of the Strategic Division in the Planning Directorate of the IDF General Staff where he was responsible for the IDF’s strategic planning and policy formulation, military diplomacy and international cooperation. His earlier posts include head of the Regional Strategy Department, and the senior intelligence officer in the IDF’s Northern Command.
Dr. Michal Hatuel Radoshitzky, Senior Advisor and Program Director at MIND Israel, held various positions in the academic and civil society worlds, including the Azrieli Foundation, the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), the Institute for Inclusive Security and the Geneva Initiative (HL Education for Peace). She is a Founding Member of Forum Dvorah: Women in Foreign Policy and National Security.
