About Us

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Our Mission

Advancing the research and education of intelligence in Israeli academia by creating a platform for knowledge sharing and collaboration among senior and junior scholars, both within Israel and abroad.

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Coordinator

Adv. Amir Cahane

A Ph.D. candidate at the Hebrew University, Faculty of Law. He is a research fellow in the ERC project Three Generations of Digital Human Rights, and in the Federmann Cyber Security Research Center – Cyber Law Program.
His research interests are comparative surveillance law, AI regulation and other topics pertaining to law and technology.
Adv. Cahane published several Hebrew books on surveillance and AI, including Human, Machine, State: Toward the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence (2023, with Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler); Regulation of Online Surveillance in Israeli Law and Comparative Law (2019, with Yuval Shany); and Oversight of online surveillance in Israel (2020, with Yuval Shany).

Supporting Organizations

The Institute for the Research of the methodology of Intelligence (IRMI)

The Institute for the Research of the Methodology of Intelligence (IRMI) at the Israeli Intelligence Community Commemoration and Heritage Center (IICC) was established in 2016 by Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Yossi Kuperwasser, former head of IDF intelligence analysis division and director general of the Ministry for Strategic Affairs, and Lt. Col. (Ret.) David Siman Tov, an expert on intelligence, cyber, and information warfare and a former IDF intelligence officer.
 
IRMI’s goal is to serve as a space for developing and discussing intelligence methodologies for the Israeli Intelligence Community and to help connecting it to the relevant methodological discourse in other intelligence communities, in academia and in the private and public sectors. IRMI publishes a professional periodical, Intelligence in Theory and in Practice, and a podcast.
 
The idea to establish the Israeli Forum for Intelligence Studies (IFIS) came out of IRMI’s project to advance the academization of intelligence studies in Israeli Academia – a project led by Col. (Res.) Dr. Ofer Guterman, formerly a senior IDF intelligence officer and intelligence asssitant to the Prime Minister’s Military Secretary.

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Davis Institute for International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations is a research institute in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Currently headed by Prof. Galia Press-Barnathan, the institute is committed to the advancement of cutting edge research in the field of International Relations, adopting a wide interdisciplinary approach to the field. 

Beyond the traditional topics of international relations, the institute also fosters research and activities regarding gender, conflict and peace, under the umbrella of the Sophie Davis Forum. The institute’s work focuses on the cultivation of research, graduate education, and ties to the community. It promote this goal through a peer-reviewed journal Politika and a podcast, both in Hebrew, and through the hosting of various public events.

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Contact Us

Adv. Amir Cahane, coordinator: [email protected]

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