Israel's northern challenges and threats - security assessment

When Israel looks at its northern borders, it tends to view the neighbouring countries of Syria and Lebanon as one front with two sectors and half-dozen elements. There are the military forces under the control of Damascus and Beirut; the Shiite political movement and heavily armed militia Hezbollah; Iranian units and proxies; a resurgent Daesh; and the Russian presence in and above Southwestern Syria, with a deconflicting mechanism separating it from Israeli attacks against the others - mostly Iranian bases and weapons caches. This has been a relatively constant picture over the last several years, with some fluctuations. So can Israeli policy makers be satisfied, that all will be quiet on the Northern front for the foreseeable future?

Guests Brigadier General (Res.) Yossi Kuperwasser – Project Director on Middle East Developments, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Col. (Res.) Reuven Ben-Shalom, TV7 Powers-in-Play Panelist, Cross-Cultural Strategist and Associate at ICT, Reichman University, and Amir Oren, TV7 Editor at Large, Host of TV7 Watchmen Talk & Powers in Play.

Jerusalem Studio

The program offers the viewer deeper understanding about current events in Israel. The topics vary from domestic and foreign policy to social changes, archaelogy and religion.

The program is hosted by TV7 Israel News anchor Jonathan Hessen.

  • First broadcast: February 4, 2022, TV7 World
  • Episode number: 665
  • Duration: 30 min
  • Spoken languages:
  • English
  • Subtitles:
  • Finnish, Swedish