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  • The future of high-tech warfare and Israel's role within it

    Ronen Shnidman, JNS.org|Jul 5, 2013

    As technology grows by leaps and bounds, leading thinkers gathered last week at the 2013 Israeli Presidential Conference to discuss the future of warfare. Israel’s cyber weapons will eventually replace the pre-emptive strike role the Israel Air Force famously played in the 1967 Six Day War, according to Israel Defense Forces Brig. Gen. (res.) Yair Cohen, former commander of Israel’s much-vaunted signal intelligence corps Unit 8200. Cohen predicted that in the future, Israel would be able to neutralize enemy weapons systems and units with “a...

  • BDS challenge being met on campus, experts say in Israel

    Ronen Shnidman, JNS.org|Jul 5, 2013

    JERUSALEM—Within the past year, three student-run legislative bodies at University of California (UC) state schools—UC Berkeley, UC Irvine and UC San Diego—passed resolutions urging divestment from Israel. These votes occurred amid allegations of the harassment of pro-Israel students on UC campuses. Yet at the same time, such resolutions were defeated at UC Riverside, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Santa Barbara, as well as outside the UC system at Stanford University. Who has the upper hand in the o...