The National Security Studies Center

former commander of the Southern Command in the Israel Defense Forces and Minister of Construction

Yoav Galant

Syria and Iran

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The research group is engaged in groundbreaking research in the fields of security and intelligence. It consists of several teams of researchers from universities in Israel and abroad. The researchers specialize in various disciplines such as technology, exact sciences, humanities, social sciences and law. The group enables researchers to combine professional experience with practical academic research. The group is working in collaboration with research centers, agencies and different organizations in order to enrich the research.

For over a decade the National Resilience Survey has been examining how the Israeli society is coping with the national security challenges it faces. This is the most comprehensive survey to ever take place in the state of Israel, as well as the most empirically meticulous study in the field of political sociology and Israel’s national security both in the size and scope of the sample polled. Every year the survey focuses on five dimensions of the social component of national resilience, which are: fear (from attacks by enemy states or terrorist), national optimism, militancy, patriotism, and confidence in national institutions.

The project "Extremism and political violence in Israeli society" examines the influence of traumatic and threatening events and / or conflicts ('The second Intifada', terror attacks, the disengagement etc.) on support for attitudes which express extremism and political violence within Israeli public since the beginning of the previous decade. This project is considered the leading research in this field.