The
"Project Daniel" Group
Naaman Belkind,
Former
Assistant to the Deputy Minister of Defense for Special Means, Israel
Maj. Gen. (Res.), Israeli Air Force, Professor
Isaac Ben-Israel,
Israel
Dr. Rand H.
Fishbein, Former Professional Staff Member, US
Senate Appropriations Committee and Special Assistant for National Security
Affairs to US Senator Daniel K. Inouye, USA
Dr.
Adir Pridor,
Lt. COL. (Ret.),
Israeli Air Force;
Former Head of Military Analyses, RAFAEL, Israel
Fmr. MK/COL (Res.), Israeli Air Force,
Yoash Tsiddon-Chatto,
Israel
Louis René
Beres was educated at Princeton (Ph.D., 1971) and publishes widely on
Israeli security matters. Professor of International Law at Purdue University,
he is the author of two recent Policy Papers of the Ariel Center for Policy
Research: “Security Threats and Effective Remedies: Israel’s Strategic, Tactical
and Legal Options” (2000) and “Israel’s Survival Imperatives: The Oslo
Agreements in International Law and National Strategy” (1997). Professor Beres
is the author of nine major books in the field and is the Strategic and Military
Affairs Columnist for
The
Jewish Press. His articles
have appeared in more than one hundred magazines and journals, including US
Department of Defense publications,
Parameters: The Journal of the US Army
War College and
Special Warfare.
Naaman Belkind
is a retired engineer with 33 years of service in the Israel Atomic Energy
Commission and the Israeli Ministry of Defense. A former Assistant to the
Deputy Minister of Defense for Special Means, he headed various projects at
the Nuclear Research Center in Dimona and served as Science Counselor at
Israel’s Embassy in Washington, DC.
Isaac
Ben-Israel
holds a Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University, where he studied mathematics, physics
and philosophy. The author of numerous articles and several books on military
issues, he has held several senior posts in operations, intelligence and
weapons development within the Israel Air Force. In January 1998 he was
promoted to Major-General and appointed as Director of Defense R&D Directorate
in IMOD. Maj-Gen. Ben-Israel has been teaching at Tel Aviv University since
1989.
Rand H.
Fishbein, Ph.D., received his doctorate, with distinction, in
International Relations/Middle East Studies from The Johns Hopkins
University School of Advanced International Studies SAIS). He
was a recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships for Middle East Study
at St. Antony's College, Oxford University and the School of
Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
Currently, Dr. Fishbein is President of Fishbein Associates Inc., a
public-policy consulting firm based in Potomac, Maryland. Dr.
Fishbein is a former Professional Staff Member of both the US
Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee and the US Senate
Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee, as well as the
former Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to Senator
Daniel K. Inouye (D-HI). During his years of service on the staff of the
Senate Appropriations Committee, Dr. Fishbein conceived of
and authored numerous programs and initiatives in support of US
national security interests in the Middle East. He was the author
of the first sanctions bill targeting the regime of Saddam Hussein
ten months before the Iraqi leader invaded Kuwait.
Adir Pridor holds a Ph.D. in
Mathematics from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem and is currently Head of the
Institute for Industrial Mathematics, which he established in 1992. A co-founder
of the Operations Research Branch of the Israel Air Force, Dr. Pridor’s
wide-ranging analytical studies have focused upon such issues as airfield
vulnerability; air defense effectiveness; aircraft survivability in special
missions; damage analysis; defense organization; missile threat assessment;
threat forecast and force building, operational planning and others.
Yoash Tsiddon-Chatto, Col./Res.,
Israeli Air Force,
was a
Member of the 12th Knesset and of the 1991 Madrid Peace Mission. A
member of the Israel Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics and of the Society
of Experimental Test Pilots, COL. Tsiddon-Chatto served as Chief of Planning and
Operational Requirements for the IAF prior to the Six Day War. A member of
RAFAEL (Armament Development Board) from 1992 until 1995, he publishes
extensively on security issues in Israel and elsewhere. A founding member of the
Ariel Center for Policy Research, Tsiddon-Chatto is the author, most recently,
of ACPR Policy Paper No. 136: “Non-Classified Realities Affecting Israel’s Air
Force – 2005-2010” (2002).
