Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

Ephraim Inbar is among Israel's most influential national security analysts.

Longtime director of Bar-Ilan University's Begin Sadat Center, he subsequently founded and directed the Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies.

His voluminous scholarly and journalistic publications have been a reliable index of the assumptions, expectations, and policy preferences of Likud governments in general, and those led by Benjamin Netanyahu in particular.

When pressed to articulate his long-term goals for the State of Israel, Inbar wrote, Fortunately, Jewish history presents the Zionist movement another alternative, the Davidic option of building a Jewish commonwealth in the midst of an idolatrous world.