--Yedioth's Middle East analyst, Shimrit Meir, examines the Iranian retaliation to the US assassination of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani.*
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The Foundation for Middle East, along with Americans for Peace
         Now, J Street, the New Israel Fund, and the Middle East Institute invite you to an event:
    Demolishing Democracy: How Annexationism Is Bulldozing Israeli Institutions
    Featuring
Yehuda Shaul, Co-Founder, Breaking the Silence
    in conversation with
    Debra Shushan, Director of Government Relations, J Street
    When: January 27, 2019, 10:00am
    Where: the Middle East Institute, 1763 N St. NW, Washington, DC
Listen to the Americans for Peace Now briefing call
         from Tuesday, January 7 with strategic affairs expert Yossi Alpher, on
         what Qassim Suleimani’s assassination means for Israel and the Middle East.
Yossi Alpher, an independent security analyst, is the former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, a former senior official with Israel’s Mossad, and a former IDF intelligence officer. He is the author of Hard Questions Tough Answers, APN’s weekly analysis of Israeli and Middle Eastern strategic affairs. His brief from this week on the Soleimani issue is HERE.
Yossi Alpher is an independent security analyst. He is the former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, a former senior official with the Mossad, and a former IDF intelligence officer. Views and positions expressed here are those of the writer, and do not necessarily represent APN's views and policy positions.
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