Go West! Israel's Turn To The Sea

Salazar 2020
3:00 am – 4:30 am

Dr. Ehud Eiran, Senior Lecturer, Department of International Affairs, University of Haifa, and a Visiting Scholar, Department of Political Science at Stanford University speaks.

Once an afterthought in Israeli strategic thinking, the Mediterranean Sea has emerged in the last decade as a major focus of interest for Israel. This, following the discovery of gas in the Israeli exclusive economic zone in the Mediterranean, as well as the expansion of the Navy in response to an expected threat from an Iran armed with a nuclear military capability.