ABSTRACT

Members of Israel’s security establishment – a group that includes senior civilian as well as military figures – periodically seek to formulate a coherent national security conception. Two systematic efforts have been made thus far into the twenty-first century: the first in 2006 by a team headed by Knesset member Dan Meridor (a former chairperson of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee); the second and most recent by IDF Chief-of-Staff Gadi Eisenkot, who in 2015 released a document entitled “The IDF’s Strategy.” 1