Approximately one month after Hamas’ attack on Israel, in this special edition of the JGI Policy Pulse your host is Dr. Shlomi Dinar, Dean of FIU’s Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs. Together with Miri Eisin, Director of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism at Reichman University in Herzliya, Israel, and retired Colonel of the Israel Defense Forces, they go beyond the attack on October 7th to examine additional factors and challenges facing Israel, Gaza, the Palestinians, and the broader Middle East. 

Colonel (Ret.) Miri Eisin

COL (Ret.) Miri Eisin is the incoming Managing Director of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism. COL (Ret.) Eisin served in the Israeli intelligence community and retired from active duty at the rank of full colonel in 2004. Over her twenty-year career in the military, she served as the deputy head of the combat intelligence corps, the personal assistant to the director of Military intelligence, and as the intelligence officer in combat units and research departments.

Shlomi Dinar

Shlomi Dinar is the dean of the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs and a Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations.

Dinar’s research interests lie at the intersection of international environmental politics, security, and negotiation. In particular, he has published in the area of conflict and cooperation over transboundary rivers (a field popularly known as ‘hydro-politics’). In addition, he works on the linkages between climate change and international water issues, particularly as such a relationship pertains to the resilience and effectiveness of international river basins and institutions, respectively.