The West Australian Institute of Jewish Affairs

and

The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council

present a public talk by

EFRAIM INBAR

Professor in Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University and the Director of its Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies & Security Issues (BESA)

"The Arab Upheavals and Israel's National Security."

Prof. Efraim Inbar

Born in Romania (1947), Efraim Inbar was educated at the Hebrew University (B.A. in Political Science and English Literature) and at the University of Chicago (M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science). He served as visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University (2004), at Georgetown University (1991-92) and visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars (1996). Prof. Inbar was appointed as a Manfred Warner NATO Fellow (1998), was a visiting fellow at the (London) International Institute for Strategic Studies (2000) and was the recipient of the Onassis Fellowship (2003). He lectured at institutions such as RAND, Harvard, MIT, Columbia, Oxford, and Yale Universities.

His area of specialization is Middle Eastern strategic issues with a special interest in the politics and strategy of Israeli national security. He has written over 60 articles in professional journals. He has authored five books: Outcast Countries in the World Community (1985), War and Peace in Israeli Politics. Labor Party Positions on National Security (1991), Rabin and Israel’s National Security (1999), The Israeli-Turkish Entente (2001), and Israel's National Security: Issues and Challenges since the Yom Kippur War (2008). He has also edited eleven collections of articles.

Prof. Inbar served in the Israel Defence Force (IDF) as a paratrooper. He was a member of the Political Strategic Committee of the National Planning Council and the Chair of the Committee for the National Security Curriculum at the Ministry of Education. He served on the Academic Committee of the History Department of the IDF and as the President of the Israel Association of International Studies. Prof. Inbar is widely quoted in the Israeli and international press.

Tuesday 30^th August, 2011 at 8:00pm

Jewish Community Centre

Woodrow Avenue, Dianella

Admission:  $5.00         Students: No charge